Cotton ginning · Missouri

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc.

Senath, MO · ~12 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. runs at 391% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade F.

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc.: 17.6 TCR = 391% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. safety composite

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−26.9

2016→2023

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 26.9 from 26.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 44.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=26.9 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=15.2 · 2020=44.4 · 2021=24.4 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Senath, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 391% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Four Corners Gin Inc…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~12 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Four Corners Gin Inc. Co. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. averages 17.6 TCR (391% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=26.9 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=15.2 · 2020=44.4 · 2021=24.4 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Cotton ginning employers in Missouri.

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. (12 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 0102030405060 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Dalton Cotton Company, Inc.
Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. (12 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Dalton Cotton Company, Inc. has fewer 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.6 7.6 1 0 0
2021 24.4 12.2 2 2 0
2020 44.4 44.4 1 5 0
2018 15.2 3.8 4 0 0
2017 4.6 0.0 0 1 0
2016 26.9 0.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · MO · Senath

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 6 employers in Senath, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Four Corners Gin Inc. Co. 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Floydada Coop Gin #1 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cochran Oil Mill & Ginnery 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLOYDADA COOP GIN 2 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4 Way Gin Co., Inc. 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kadean Construction Company KC 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE DDR Construction Services LLC 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEP - North 12 FTE
CITY-NEAR Senath South Health Care Center 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Roofing Contractors of SEMO, Inc 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Roofing Contractors of Southeast Missouri, Inc. 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cotton Gin 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Hinz Trucking, Inc. 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Shores of Sheboygan 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westminster Police Department 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Moscow 17.6 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 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.