Cotton ginning · South Carolina

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin

Salters, SC · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade F.

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin: 11.4 TCR = 253% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin safety composite

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin: 9.1 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin's TCR rose 4.6 from 9.1 in 2023 to 13.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Salters, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 253% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Farmers Cooperative …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farmers Cooperative Association Stanton (0.3 TCR gap)

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Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin averages 11.4 TCR (253% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin TCR series: 2023=9.1 · 2024=13.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Cotton ginning employers in South Carolina.

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin (32 employees, TCR 11.4) 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 102030405060 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin
Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin (32 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin has more 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 13.7 0.0 3 0 0
2023 9.1 4.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · SC · Salters

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Farmers Cooperative Association Stanton 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Windstar, Inc. 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coffee Co Gin County Inc 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAFT GIN & SEED CO., INC. 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humphrey Coker Seed Company Inc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Utility 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridgeland 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Payne, McGinn and Cummins, Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR TRI COUNTY COTTON GROWERS, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-TCR On Stage Waikiki - Rock-A-Hula 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Txalg - Lone Star 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation, Inc Syr 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Greenwich 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Catskill Animal Sanctuary 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogers & Willard, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Innovative Concrete Designs Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Sacramento Folsom 32 FTE

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. 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.