Cotton ginning · Oklahoma

Cotton Growers Cooperative

Altus, OK · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Cotton Growers Cooperative runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Cotton Growers Cooperative: 6.1 TCR = 136% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cotton Growers Cooperative safety composite

Cotton Growers Cooperative scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−4.7

2017→2021

Cotton Growers Cooperative injury rate improved

Cotton Growers Cooperative's TCR fell 4.7 from 10.5 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.5 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Altus, OK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 136% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO WEST ISLAND COTTON G…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WEST ISLAND COTTON GROWERS, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cotton Growers Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cotton Growers Cooperative averages 6.1 TCR (136% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Cotton Growers Cooperative TCR series: 2017=10.5 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Cotton Growers Cooperative falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Cotton ginning employers in Oklahoma.

Cotton Growers Cooperative (39 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 102030405060 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Cotton Growers Cooperative
Cotton Growers Cooperative (39 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Cotton Growers Cooperative has more employees than the Cotton ginning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 5.8 5.8 3 0 0
2020 8.4 0.0 4 0 1
2019 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2017 10.5 4.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · OK · Altus

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,320 rated employers in Oklahoma with headcount on file · 27 employers in Altus, OK · 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 WEST ISLAND COTTON GROWERS, INC. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Coop Gin 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grundfest and Klaus Gin, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Agricultural- Danevang 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jurgensmeyer Mushroom Co., LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ranger Oilfield Services Corporation 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE OG&E-Horseshoe Lake Power Plant 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverside Plant 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altus Plant 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 479 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 479 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altus Operations, LLC dba Magnolia Creek Skilled Nursing and Therapy 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Leon Valley 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Santa Clara 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MAX Aerostructures 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Volkswagen of Duluth 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Short Pump (#32) 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beck Manufacturing - Waynesboro Plant 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Usi, Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE SJB Group, LLC 39 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.