Mushroom farming · California

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc

Gilroy, CA · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc: 10.5 TCR = 232% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc safety composite

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−10.8

2017→2020

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc injury rate improved

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc's TCR fell 10.8 from 12.5 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 20.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.5 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=20.0 · 2020=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111411 · Gilroy, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 232% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO Highland Oysters
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Highland Oysters (0.2 TCR gap)

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Countryside Mushrooms, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Countryside Mushrooms, Inc averages 10.5 TCR (232% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc TCR series: 2017=12.5 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=20 · 2020=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Countryside Mushrooms, Inc falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Mushroom farming employers in California.

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc (47 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Countryside Mushrooms, Inc
Countryside Mushrooms, Inc (47 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Countryside Mushrooms, Inc has fewer employees than the Mushroom farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2019 20.0 20.0 8 0 0
2018 7.7 7.7 6 0 0
2017 12.5 11.1 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111411 · CA · Gilroy

107 Mushroom farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 113 employers in Gilroy, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Highland Oysters 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hopewell Organics, LLC 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giorgi Mushroom Farm 2 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAJ Mushroom 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company,Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 9 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Christopher Ranch LLC 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0010-00100005 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olam West Coast 450 FTE
NAT-TCR Northwest Medical Center- Bentonville 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR United Methodist Retirement Communities 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0541 New York 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Hills Lincoln Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blow Brothers Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Physicians Premier Bryan 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE CTC - Company 47 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.