Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc.

West Grove, PA · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 110% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. safety composite

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc.: 4.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2019

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.3 from 4.0 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111411 · West Grove, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #41/63
  • PHOTO Pietro Industries Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pietro Industries Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (110% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

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

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #41 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. (46 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc.
Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. (46 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. has fewer 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
2019 5.3 2.6 2 0 0
2018 5.6 0.0 2 0 0
2016 4.0 1.3 3 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 Pietro Industries Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KSS Sales 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFM 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2490_4560 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Hatchery 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Casing, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Elizabethtown ELI1 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-Taurus 46 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 Fun Sweets LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3030 Keystone Automotive 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Grubb Ventures 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1969-FSL1 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Honeywell NY09 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fireservice Inc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Fiberglass 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkmont Vet Lab 46 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: 2019, 2018, 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.