Cotton ginning · California

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc.

Buttonwillow, CA · ~13 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade C.

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc.: 3.9 TCR = 87% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. safety composite

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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)
D 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc.: 5.1 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.07× in 2024

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 5.1 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Buttonwillow, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Vanduser Gin Co Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vanduser Gin Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. averages 3.9 TCR (87% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Cotton ginning employers in California.

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. (13 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc.
Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. (13 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. 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 8.1 8.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 13.2 6.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · CA · Buttonwillow

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 13 employers in Buttonwillow, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Vanduser Gin Co Inc 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PPF GIN AND WAREHOUSE, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bemis Gin, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coffee Cotton Gin Co., Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE J & G Contract Labor, Inc 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Inc 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concepcion Ramirez Farms 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE David E. Carlucci Diversified Farming 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reyes Contracting Inc 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandridge Partners,LP 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goyenetche Dairy LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Cross Dairy 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Modern Sheet Metal Works, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RALGIC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Deceuninck North America Fernley 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Denmark WI 3.9 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. 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.