Mushroom farming · California

Mushroom Farms

Name: Mushroom Farms Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Watsonville, CA · ~86 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mushroom Farms runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Mushroom Farms: 7.5 TCR = 167% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mushroom Farms safety composite

Mushroom Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Mushroom Farms held a steady TCR band

Mushroom Farms's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.5 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.5 · 2018=7.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111411 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 167% of ind

DART 6.3 DART
RANK #9/13
PHOTO B&D MUSHROOMS
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: B&D MUSHROOMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paramount Mush

8.2
Donna Bella Fa

7.7
RI Mushroom Co

7.6
This site

7.5
B&D MUSHROOMS

7.5

What this shows Mushroom Farms averages 7.5 TCR (167% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

Mushroom Farms TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Mushroom Farms falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Mushroom farming employers in California.

Mushroom Farms (86 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Mushroom Farms 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
2018	7.6	6.3	5	1	0
2017	7.5	2.5	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111411 · CA · Watsonville

107 Mushroom farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	B&D MUSHROOMS	SAN MARTIN, CA	7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RI Mushroom Co.	WEST KINGSTON, RI	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Donna Bella Farms LLC	TEMPLE, PA	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC	KENNETT SQUARE, PA	8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MALAGA HARVEST SHOP	ARVIN	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Muller Ranch, LLC	WOODLAND	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	OXNARD TERRACE	OXNARD	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MALAGA ADMINISTRATION	ARVIN	86 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Office	Watsonville	2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Premiere Raspberries, LLC	Watsonville	680 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Watsonville Community Hospital	Watsonville	632 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC	Watsonville	550 FTE
NAT-TCR	RGH Enterprises - Elgin, IL	Elgin, IL	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ocean Walk - Resort	Daytona Beach, FL	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oren Atchley Company, Inc	Fort Smith, AR	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Meadow Gold Billings - Billings - Broadway	Billings, MT	7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Avera Creighton Care Centre	Creighton, NE	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Doubletree Princeton	Princeton, NJ	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brookdale Overland Park 119th	Overland Park, KS	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Republic National Distributing Company 22	Pensacola, FL	86 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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