Cotton ginning · Georgia

Early Co Gin, Inc.

Blakely, GA · ~18 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Early Co Gin, Inc. runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade F.

Early Co Gin, Inc.: 9.7 TCR = 216% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Early Co Gin, Inc. safety composite

Early Co Gin, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−31.5

2016→2024

Early Co Gin, Inc. injury rate improved

Early Co Gin, Inc.'s TCR fell 31.5 from 31.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 31.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=31.5 · 2017=13.8 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=19.5 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Blakely, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 216% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/20
  • PHOTO BRITZ GIN PARTNERSHI…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRITZ GIN PARTNERSHIP II (0.0 TCR gap)

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Early Co Gin, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Early Co Gin, Inc. averages 9.7 TCR (216% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Early Co Gin, Inc. TCR series: 2016=31.5 · 2017=13.8 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=19.5 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Early Co Gin, Inc. falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 20 Cotton ginning employers in Georgia.

Early Co Gin, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 Early Co Gin, Inc.
Early Co Gin, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Early Co Gin, 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2022 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2019 19.5 14.6 2 2 0
2018 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 13.8 13.8 4 0 0
2016 31.5 15.7 6 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · GA · Blakely

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 11 employers in Blakely, GA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR BRITZ GIN PARTNERSHIP II 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rotan Gin Co 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hi Grade Gin Corporation 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SuperFit 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trulieve Adel 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albany Cold Storage 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&M Warehouse & Packing of Georgia, LLC-M3 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeBrite Community Hospital of Early, LLC 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Birdsong Peanuts Blakely 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Early Memorial Nursing Home 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blakely Plant 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Kenton Pointe Assisted Living Community 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Standard of Beaverdale Inc 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Windsor of Bradenton 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Welding 9.7 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.