Industry profile · NAICS 712110

Natural science museums

Workplace injury rates across 267 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

267
Employers
4.2
Avg TCR
3.1
BLS benchmark
3,095
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Natural science museums average 4.2 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.3 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.1.

4.2
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.1
BLS national benchmark
267
employers reporting
3,095
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Natural science museums Safety Data Reveals

The Natural science museums sector (NAICS 712110) encompasses 267 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 3,095 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.1 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.2 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Natural science museums that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Sauder Village Archbold, OH C 2.6
Griffith Observatory Los Angeles, CA C 2.6
The Henry Ford Dearborn, MI C 2.6
The Wild Center Tupper Lake, NY C 2.5
Orange County Museum of Art Costa Mesa, CA C 2.5
Miami Children's Museum Miami, FL C 2.5
6392_16112 Milwaukee, WI B 2.4
Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, Inc. Pensacola, FL B 2.4
Missouri History Museum Saint Louis, MO B 2.4
13230 Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI B 2.4
Museum of York County Rock Hill, SC B 2.4
Historic Deerfield Inc. Deerfield, MA B 2.3
18710038--9-11 Memorial and Museum New York, NY B 2.3
Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, TX B 2.3
The National WWI Museum and Memorial Kansas City, MO B 2.3
National Corvette Museum Bowling Green, KY B 2.3
Museum-Main Klamath Falls, OR B 2.3
Milwaukee Art Musuem Milwaukee, WI B 2.3
Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA B 2.2
Ripley's Believe It Or Not - St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine, FL B 2.2
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL B 2.2
Tellus Science Museum Cartersville, GA B 2.2
National Atomic Museum Foundation Albuquerque, NM B 2.2
Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI B 2.2
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Portland, OR B 2.2
Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, CA B 2.1
Walters Art Museum Baltimore, MD B 2.1
Cincinnati Museum center Cincinnati, OH B 2.1
Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Library & Museums Fremont, OH B 2.1
George Eastman Museum Rochester, NY B 2.1
Kentucky Historical Society Frankfort, KY B 2.0
DuPage Children's Museum Naperville, IL B 2.0
Mi Lbry and Histrcl Ctr - Dnr Lansing, MI B 2.0
Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, MI B 2.0
Science Spectrum Lubbock, TX B 2.0
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium San Pedro, CA B 2.0
MoPOP Seattle, WA B 1.9
Franklin County Historical Society dba COSI Columbus, OH B 1.9
Dia Art Foundation Beacon, NY B 1.9
Friends of Dinosaur Ridge Morrison, CO B 1.9
Library and Research Center Saint Louis, MO B 1.8
Munson Williams Proctor Institute Utica, NY B 1.8
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA B 1.8
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites (ISMHS) 650 W Washington Street, IN B 1.7
Speed Art Museum Louisville, KY B 1.6
Museum Seattle, WA B 1.6
Columbus Museum of Art Columbus, OH A 1.6
Ripley Entertainment Inc. Corporate Headquarters Orlando, FL A 1.6
McWane Science Center Birmingham, AL A 1.5
American Museum of Natural History New York, NY A 1.5
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This sector averages 4.2 against a BLS benchmark of 3.1 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.