Cotton ginning · Texas

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc

Hereford, TX · ~10 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc: 7.4 TCR = 165% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc safety composite

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc: 0.0 → 17.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.35× in 2021

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc's TCR rose 17.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 17.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Hereford, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 17.5 DART
  • RANK #72/95
  • PHOTO RGV Gin Company, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~10 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RGV Gin Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc averages 7.4 TCR (165% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=4.8 · 2021=17.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #72 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc (10 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc
Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc (10 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. 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
2021 17.5 17.5 1 0 0
2018 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Hereford

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

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR RGV Gin Company, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terry County Coop 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tunica Gin Corporation 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Coop Association #1 Gin plant 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayside-Richardson Cooperative Gin Company, Inc. 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Rolling Plains Co-op 10 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness Beef 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrick Petcare 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Surgery Center 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FSV 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Express One Logistics, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pt. Hueneme 7.4 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: 2021, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.