Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC

Kennett Square, PA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC: 8.2 TCR = 182% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC safety composite

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC: 5.4 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC's TCR rose 5.6 from 5.4 in 2023 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 182% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #50/63
  • PHOTO Kaolin Mushroom Farm…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex (0.1 TCR gap)

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Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC averages 8.2 TCR (182% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

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

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC TCR series: 2023=5.4 · 2024=11 · BLS 4.5

Where Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #50 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC (32 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC
Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC (32 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC 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
2024 11.0 9.2 6 0 0
2023 5.4 5.4 2 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 Kaolin Mushroom Farms - Starr Road Complex 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sylvan Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amycel Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giorgi Mushroom Farm 1 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE KNOUSE FRUITLANDS, INC. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wharf 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAJ Mushroom 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio River Partner Shareholders LLC 32 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 AJ Manufacturing, Inc. 105 Riggs Street 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 094 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Phelps Fan LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Monarch KYNJ 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hofmann Sausage Co 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Maple Recovery 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0496 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0520 32 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. 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.