Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Needhams Mushroom Farm

West Grove, PA · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Needhams Mushroom Farm runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Needhams Mushroom Farm: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Needhams Mushroom Farm safety composite

Needhams Mushroom Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−1.7

2020→2021

Needhams Mushroom Farm injury rate improved

Needhams Mushroom Farm's TCR fell 1.7 from 3.6 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.6 · 2021=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111411 · West Grove, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #16/63
  • PHOTO Sylvan PA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sylvan PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Needhams Mushroom Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Needhams Mushroom Farm averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

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

Needhams Mushroom Farm TCR series: 2020=3.6 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Needhams Mushroom Farm falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #16 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Needhams Mushroom Farm (42 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Needhams Mushroom Farm
Needhams Mushroom Farm (42 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Needhams Mushroom Farm 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
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111411 · PA · West Grove

107 Mushroom farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 23 employers in West Grove, 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 PA 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Kennett Complex 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GMC Farm 2 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monterey Mushrooms Princeton Facility 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE KSS Sales 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopewell Organics, LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moyer's Chicks, Inc. 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jennersville Hospital LLC 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jenner's Pond 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR GIANT FOOD STORES 6045 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106045 238 FTE
NAT-TCR Packaging Specialties 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Avenue 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercedes Office 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR John Mills Electric, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meriter Business Center 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE HUBERTVILLE 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE StoneBridge of Cabot 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE MacArthur Company-Energy Panel Structures MO 42 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.