Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables · Pennsylvania

Mother Earth, LLC

Landenberg, PA · ~57 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mother Earth, LLC runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Mother Earth, LLC: 6.6 TCR = 146% of Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mother Earth, LLC safety composite

Mother Earth, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Mother Earth, LLC held a steady TCR band

Mother Earth, LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 8.3 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Landenberg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 146% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Dresick Farms, Inc -…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dresick Farms, Inc - Cooler (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mother Earth, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mother Earth, LLC averages 6.6 TCR (146% of the Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Mother Earth, LLC TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=6 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Mother Earth, LLC falls in its industry

666 Sorting, grading, cleaning, an establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Sorting, grading, cleaning, an employers in Pennsylvania.

Mother Earth, LLC (57 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mother Earth, LLC
Mother Earth, LLC (57 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Mother Earth, LLC has fewer employees than the Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 8.4 7.0 6 0 0
2023 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.6 3.0 3 0 0
2021 3.9 2.6 3 0 0
2020 9.6 7.2 8 0 0
2019 6.0 4.5 4 0 0
2018 7.3 7.3 5 0 0
2017 9.5 9.5 6 0 0
2016 8.3 6.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · PA · Landenberg

666 Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 9 employers in Landenberg, 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 Dresick Farms, Inc - Cooler 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PREMIER PRODUCTION 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEORGIA LAKE PARK PRODUCTION 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Diamond Cooling, Inc. 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE John R. Stinson & Sons Inc 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Leaf Medical LLC. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Pleasant Egg 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blacklick 8300 Route 119 North Rd, Blacklick, PA 15774 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Garden 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farm 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laurel Valley Farms 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Technivate, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-TCR Foodservice Arizona - 1012 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Mill, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott County Sheriff's Office 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Grbr 56rm 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clark/Sullivan Construction - Nevada 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE MDT Armor 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orland Park 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruppert Landscape - Baltimore 57 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.