Cotton ginning · Texas

Lubbock Cotton Growers

Lubbock, TX · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lubbock Cotton Growers runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Lubbock Cotton Growers: 8.8 TCR = 196% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lubbock Cotton Growers safety composite

Lubbock Cotton Growers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−9.4

2016→2022

Lubbock Cotton Growers injury rate improved

Lubbock Cotton Growers's TCR fell 9.4 from 16.3 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=17.6 · 2019=7.8 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 196% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #79/95
  • PHOTO Commonwealth Gin
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commonwealth Gin (0.2 TCR gap)

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Lubbock Cotton Growers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lubbock Cotton Growers averages 8.8 TCR (196% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Lubbock Cotton Growers TCR series: 2016=16.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=17.6 · 2019=7.8 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=6.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Lubbock Cotton Growers falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #79 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Lubbock Cotton Growers (33 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Lubbock Cotton Growers
Lubbock Cotton Growers (33 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Lubbock Cotton Growers 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
2022 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2019 7.8 7.8 2 0 0
2018 17.6 17.6 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 16.3 16.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Lubbock

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 482 employers in Lubbock, TX · 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 Commonwealth Gin 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hungerford Growers Gin, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silvercot, Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WinCott Gin Co. Inc. 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR A01 Covenant Medical Center 3,178 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-20049000 2,269 FTE
CITY-NEAR FALCON HEALTHCARE INC DBA INTERIM HEALTHCARE 2,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covenant Health System 1,761 FTE
NAT-TCR Harmony Hall Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yazoo City Rehabilitation and Healthcare 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaleidoscope Landscape 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USGWAS 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Platform Beer Co. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malden NY 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson - Tulsa 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbury Clinic 33 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.