Farm crews and hand-labor operations need one toilet and handwashing setup per 20 workers within a quarter mile walk, per OSHA 1928.110. Mobile Porta Pros sets units at field edges, packing sheds and equipment yards across Mobile so nobody loses a harvest window walking back to the barn.
Start with OSHA 1928.110: one toilet facility per 20 hand-labor employees, and it has to sit within a quarter mile of where people are actually working. That is the field sanitation rule for agriculture, and it is stricter on distance than the general construction standard. A 40-person picking crew spread across two fields usually needs units at both ends, not one bank near the road. Mobile Porta Pros walks the property with you before delivery, because a single standard porta potty rental parked at the gate does nothing for a crew working the back forty. Each unit holds 60 to 70 gallons, enough for a crew to run a full week between services on most jobs, though harvest season and hot weather push that faster. For bigger crews or long seasons, a monthly porta potty rental tends to run cheaper per week than booking short stretches over and over. If your farm sits near Theodore or Tillmans Corner, about 12.8 and 10.4 miles from Mobile respectively, delivery routing is straightforward and we already service both areas regularly. Potable water counts too: OSHA 1926.51(a)(1) requires an adequate supply wherever people are working, and a lot of farm sites are pairing a toilet with a handwashing station rental or a standalone portable sink rental to cover that.
Pricing depends mostly on how long the unit sits and how many you need moved around the property. A standard unit runs in the same band whether it is picking season or planting season, but longer terms cost less per day.
| duration | typical price |
|---|---|
| day | $150 |
| week | $200 |
| month | $200 |
These are standard unit rates from measured rental data, not quoted figures, so treat them as a planning range and confirm the exact number when you request a quote. Seasonal farms often do better with a monthly porta potty rental locked in for the whole harvest rather than booking week to week. If you are comparing against a construction job or an event on the same property, the full breakdown lives on our porta potty rental cost page, and the day-rate specifics are on porta potty rental per day. Farms running processing sheds sometimes need more than toilets. A packing operation with a wash line generates grease and organic waste that a household setup was not built for, and a grease trap pumping service handles that separately from restroom service. If the farm has an old septic system feeding the main house or bunkhouse, that is its own maintenance track, and septic pumping service covers a tank that is overdue rather than a portable unit.
Yes, and for most ag operations it is not optional. OSHA 1928.110 covers handwashing right alongside toilets and potable water as part of the same field sanitation requirement for hand-labor crews. Workers handling produce, working around livestock, or applying anything to crops need a real handwashing setup near the work, not just a bottle of sanitizer in a truck. That distinction matters more than people think: 29 CFR 1910.141(d)(2) is explicit that hand sanitizer does not satisfy a washing facility requirement, soap and towels or a hand-drying device do. If your crew handles pesticides, herbicides or any coating chemical, OSHA 1926.51(f)(1) adds a washing requirement specific to that contaminant exposure, on top of the general field sanitation rule. Mobile Porta Pros pairs standard units with a handwashing station rental on most farm accounts for exactly this reason, and a lot of operations near Mobile add a hand sanitizer station rental as a supplement, not a replacement. Bigger operations running full crews sometimes skip individual units entirely and go with a restroom trailer rental, especially if the farm also hosts agritourism, a corn maze, or a fall festival where the public needs something nicer than a job-site unit. Curious what the actual requirement looks like written out in plain language? Our handwashing requirements page walks through it, and general OSHA numbers for toilets are covered on OSHA portable toilet requirements.
Book two to three weeks ahead if you can, longer for whole-season contracts. Harvest timing shifts with weather, so we build in flexibility on delivery dates. Rush requests still get handled through emergency porta potty rental when a crew shows up faster than expected.
Not under OSHA 1928.110, which requires the facility within a quarter mile of the work, not the property. If your fields sit farther apart than that, you need separate units at each. Use how many porta potties do I need to plan the count.
Yes, that is the point of them. Standard units need no hookup, standing about 92 inches tall and roughly 44 by 48 inches on the ground, easy to place near a barn or fence line. Pair one with a portable sink rental for washing.
Farms follow OSHA 1928.110's quarter-mile rule; construction follows OSHA 1926.51(c) ratios based on worker count. Farm sites often need units moved as crews shift fields, while construction units usually sit fixed. See construction site services for that comparison.
Yes, and it is common for farms doing agritourism. Public events need cleaner, higher-capacity units than a field crew, often an ADA accessible porta potty under ADA Standards 213.2. Check county fair restrooms for a similar event scale.
Yes. Mobile Porta Pros delivers farm and agricultural restrooms across Mobile and the surrounding metro, with same-day and next-day drop-off available on most orders.
Pricing depends on the unit and how long you need it. See our cost breakdown and request a free quote for an exact figure.
Standard rentals include scheduled service — a pump-out, a clean, a restock and fresh deodorizer. Busy or hot-weather sites can be serviced more often.
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