Cotton ginning · Texas

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta

Mereta, TX · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade F.

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta: 10.8 TCR = 239% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta safety composite

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−6.6

2018→2021

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta injury rate improved

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta's TCR fell 6.6 from 14.5 in 2018 to 7.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.5 · 2019=15.9 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 239% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #86/95
  • PHOTO Osceola Cotton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Osceola Cotton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta averages 10.8 TCR (239% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta TCR series: 2018=14.5 · 2019=15.9 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #86 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta (26 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta
Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta (26 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Lonestar Farmers Cooperative-Mereta 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 7.9 3.9 2 0 0
2020 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2019 15.9 10.6 6 0 0
2018 14.5 11.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Mereta

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas 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 Osceola Cotton 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriCounty Producers Coop 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Windstar, Inc. 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Cooperative Association Stanton 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belding Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Industries, L.P. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeling Cattle Feeders 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy, LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mereta Coop 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutter Gould Medical Foundation (195-104) 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Merchandise Express Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Research Tool & Die Works 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ouellette Plumbing & Heating Corporation 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pump Pro's 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York Blower - New Castle 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Medical Foundation (185-222) 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.P. Salmini Co. Inc 26 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.