Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility

Kennett Square, PA · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility: 3.4 TCR = 75% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility safety composite

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.3

2016→2017

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility injury rate improved

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility's TCR fell 2.3 from 4.5 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/63
  • PHOTO Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility averages 3.4 TCR (75% 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 - West Grove Facility TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #25 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility (34 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 - West Grove Facility
Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility (34 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility has fewer 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
2017 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.5 2.3 2 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 Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GMI - MI 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MD Basciani & Sons, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR J. D. MUSHROOMS INC 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.M. Logging, LLC 34 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 1855-ALMOB2 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pleasantville (Njple) 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical Transport Company of Tucson 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Millers Party Rental Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenn E. Sessions & Sons 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haley, Chisholm & Morris, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caliber, Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0065 - Odessa, TX 34 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.