Compost manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Hytech Mushroom Compost

West Grove, PA · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hytech Mushroom Compost runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Compost manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hytech Mushroom Compost: 3.9 TCR = 118% of Compost manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hytech Mushroom Compost safety composite

Hytech Mushroom Compost scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hytech Mushroom Compost: 2.7 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2021

Hytech Mushroom Compost's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.7 in 2020 to 5.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · West Grove, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Morral Companies - M…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morral Companies - Main Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hytech Mushroom Compost in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hytech Mushroom Compost averages 3.9 TCR (118% of the Compost manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hytech Mushroom Compost TCR series: 2020=2.7 · 2021=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hytech Mushroom Compost falls in its industry

163 Compost manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Compost manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Hytech Mushroom Compost (49 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hytech Mushroom Compost
Hytech Mushroom Compost (49 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hytech Mushroom Compost has more employees than the Compost manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 5.1 5.1 4 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · PA · West Grove

163 Compost manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 23 employers in West Grove, PA · 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 Morral Companies - Main Facility 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florikan ESA 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Andersons, Inc. - Bowling Green 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florikan ESA LLC 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bonnie Brae Fruit Farms, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & L Orchard Co. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vallorani Mushrooms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Story of PA- Smithfield (AWH) 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jennersville Hospital LLC 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jenner's Pond 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR GIANT FOOD STORES 6045 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106045 238 FTE
NAT-TCR Agrati Inc. Medina 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dot Foods, Inc.- OK 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wsa Facility 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR K&A Manufacturing, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aquatics 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Cloud Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atchison Tubular Services, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Gould Medical Foundation (195-141) 49 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.