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
Color Factory Chicago Chicago, IL A 1.5
14085 the Friends of Iolani Palace Honolulu, HI A 1.5
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA A 1.5
Rutherford B Hayes Pres Lib & Museums Fremont, OH A 1.5
Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga, TN A 1.5
Museum of the Bible (MOTB) Washington, DC A 1.5
Museum of Arts and Sciences Daytona Beach, FL A 1.4
Plains Art Museum Fargo, ND A 1.4
City of Edina - Art Center Edina, MN A 1.4
The Frick Collection New York, NY A 1.3
Little Wing Seattle, WA A 1.3
Toledo Science Center dba Imagination Station Toledo, OH A 1.3
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan, WI A 1.3
National Museum of Mathematics New York, NY A 1.3
Madame Tussauds Hollywood Los Angeles, CA A 1.3
Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati, OH A 1.3
Naper Settlement Naperville, IL A 1.2
6090-60900001 New York, NY A 1.2
Vero Beach Museum of Art Vero Beach, FL A 1.2
The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL A 1.2
The Adler Planetarium Chicago, IL A 1.2
The Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, Inc. Nas Pensacola, FL A 1.2
Boca Raton Museum of Art Inc Boca Raton, FL A 1.2
4829-13230 Honolulu, HI A 1.2
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA A 1.1
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Ann Arbor, MI A 1.1
Chicago Children's Museum Chicago, IL A 1.1
McNay Art Museum San Antonio, TX A 1.0
Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA A 1.0
The Museum of Flight Seattle, WA A 1.0
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum Birmingham, AL A 1.0
The Field Museum Chicago, IL A 1.0
Alan Entertainment Holdings, LLC Branson, MO A 0.9
Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. Rockford, IL A 0.9
Museum of the City of New York New York, NY A 0.9
Science Museum Oklahoma Oklahoma City, OK A 0.8
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco, CA A 0.8
Oregon Historical Society Portland, OR A 0.8
ITY Oklahoma City Museum of Art Oklahoma City, OK A 0.8
MS Museum of Art Jackson, MS A 0.8
Reynolda House Museum of American Art Winston Salem, NC A 0.6
Maryland Academy of Sciences Baltimore, MD A 0.5
Science Central Fort Wayne, IN A 0.5
Fenimore Art Museum Cooperstown, NY A 0.5
Thinkery Austin, TX A 0.5
Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC Branson, MO A 0.0
Alcatraz East Pigeon Forge, TN C 0.0
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Pooler, GA C 0.0
Treasures of the Florida Keys Key West, FL C 0.0
Town of Normal - Cultural Arts Normal, IL C 0.0
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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.