Cotton ginning · Texas

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant

Big Spring, TX · ~10 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade B.

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant: 3.0 TCR = 68% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant safety composite

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant held a steady TCR band

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=17.4 · 2020=7.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Big Spring, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/95
  • PHOTO Moreman Gin
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~10 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moreman Gin (0.0 TCR gap)

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FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant averages 3.0 TCR (68% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=17.4 · 2020=7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant (10 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 0204060 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant
FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant (10 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant has fewer employees than the Cotton ginning median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.0 7.0 1 0 0
2019 17.4 17.4 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Big Spring

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 32 employers in Big Spring, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Moreman Gin 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sowega Cotton Hartford 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockney Coop Gin 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Coop Association #1 Gin plant 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayside-Richardson Cooperative Gin Company, Inc. 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Rolling Plains Co-op 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc 10 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Bureau of Prisons 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 513 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 513 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Spring Refinery 232 FTE
NAT-TCR Schwoeppe Machine and Tool 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RMF Steel Products Co 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trustile Doors - Northwood 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit HVC 3.0 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, 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.