Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex

Kennett Square, PA · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex: 8.3 TCR = 184% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex safety composite

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−2.9

2016→2017

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex injury rate improved

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex's TCR fell 2.9 from 9.8 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.8 · 2017=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111411 · Kennett Square, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #51/63
  • PHOTO Sylvan Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sylvan Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex averages 8.3 TCR (184% 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 Farms - Starr Road Complex TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2017=6.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #51 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex (75 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Farms - Starr Road Complex
Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex (75 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex 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
2017 6.8 1.0 7 0 0
2016 9.8 3.3 9 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 Sylvan Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amycel Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giorgi Mushroom Farm 1 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5D Field Services, LLC 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE FMS Construction Company 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&D Builders 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE TJD Energy Services, LLC 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaolin Mushroom Farm 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kendal-Crosslands Communities 604 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Mill Champs 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tri-M Group, LLC 489 FTE
NAT-TCR Wellington at NRH 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 8350 Lyra Drive,LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Poff Carting Services LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Underground Services 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADS Logan Twp. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haren & Laughlin Construction Co., Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Nixa LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Crestview LLC 75 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: 2017, 2016. 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.