Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Kaolin Mushroom Farm

Kennett Square, PA · ~663 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaolin Mushroom Farm runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Kaolin Mushroom Farm: 2.6 TCR = 57% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaolin Mushroom Farm safety composite

Kaolin Mushroom Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Kaolin Mushroom Farm held a steady TCR band

Kaolin Mushroom Farm's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.5 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.5 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111411 · Kennett Square, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 57% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #13/63
  • PHOTO Regester Mushrooms inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~663 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Regester Mushrooms inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kaolin Mushroom Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaolin Mushroom Farm averages 2.6 TCR (57% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

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

Kaolin Mushroom Farm TCR series: 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Kaolin Mushroom Farm falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Kaolin Mushroom Farm (663 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Kaolin Mushroom Farm
Kaolin Mushroom Farm (663 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kaolin Mushroom Farm has more employees than the Mushroom farming median and a lower 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
2024 2.6 2.1 16 0 0
2023 2.5 1.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111411 · PA · Kennett Square

107 Mushroom farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 55 employers in Kennett Square, 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 Regester Mushrooms inc 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennett Square Mushroom Operation, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monterey Mushrooms Princeton Facility 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scott Electric 663 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAI Consultants, Inc. - Homestead 663 FTE
STATE-SIZE PLAINVILLE FARMS 662 FTE
STATE-SIZE UPMC Somerset 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kendal-Crosslands Communities 604 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Mill Champs 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tri-M Group, LLC 489 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Tri-M Group, LLC 484 FTE
NAT-TCR MaiCo Industries, Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aggressive Tooling 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 300000170856667 - WI-Sturtevant-Operating Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Marcos 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Naples Farm 663 FTE
NAT-SIZE True Leaf Farms Yuma 663 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nmalb - Albuquerque 663 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raritan Bay Medical Center OBD 663 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.