Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Kennett Square Specialties

Kennett Square, PA · ~100 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kennett Square Specialties runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Kennett Square Specialties: 6.8 TCR = 151% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kennett Square Specialties safety composite

Kennett Square Specialties scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Kennett Square Specialties: 5.3 → 129.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 268.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kennett Square Specialties's TCR rose 124.2 from 5.3 in 2016 to 129.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 268.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 151% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #48/63
  • PHOTO GLOBAL MUSHROOM LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GLOBAL MUSHROOM LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kennett Square Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kennett Square Specialties averages 6.8 TCR (151% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

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

Kennett Square Specialties TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=9.5 · 2020=227.3 · 2021=268.8 · 2022=197.9 · 2023=213.1 · 2024=129.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Kennett Square Specialties falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #48 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Kennett Square Specialties (100 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Kennett Square Specialties
Kennett Square Specialties (100 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kennett Square Specialties has more 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
2024 129.4 0.0 3 0 0
2023 213.1 0.0 5 0 0
2022 197.9 0.0 4 0 0
2021 268.8 0.0 4 0 0
2020 227.3 75.8 3 0 0
2019 9.5 9.5 10 0 0
2018 5.7 4.8 6 0 0
2017 6.8 6.8 11 0 0
2016 5.3 2.9 11 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 GLOBAL MUSHROOM LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JM Farms Inc 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monterey Mushrooms LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASA Mushroom LLC 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Howard Concrete Pumping Company 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wallworks, Inc 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cost Company 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE JW CARRIGAN, LLC 100 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 Bradbury Brothers, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 40226 - CAPSTONE Albertsons Portland OR 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pallet Shop 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin Iron LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heritage Homes of Nebraska, Inc 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthen Industries Nashua South 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE RVI-Texarkana 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Wu Resident Dining 100 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.