Cotton ginning · South Carolina

Middling Cotton Co., Inc.

St. Matthews, SC · ~13 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Middling Cotton Co., Inc. runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade A.

Middling Cotton Co., Inc.: 0.7 TCR = 15% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middling Cotton Co., Inc. safety composite

Middling Cotton Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

Middling Cotton Co., Inc. held a steady TCR band

Middling Cotton Co., Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · St. Matthews, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Coley Gin & Fertiliz…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coley Gin & Fertilizer Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Middling Cotton Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Middling Cotton Co., Inc. averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Middling Cotton Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Middling Cotton Co., Inc. falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #1 safest of 4 Cotton ginning employers in South Carolina.

Middling Cotton Co., Inc. (13 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Middling Cotton Co., Inc.
Middling Cotton Co., Inc. (13 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Middling Cotton Co., 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · SC · St. Matthews

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

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Coley Gin & Fertilizer Company 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quito Gin, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PHOENIX GIN COMPANY 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR McGehee Producers Gin 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE M. B. Kahn IK Div. Rita Hollings Center 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg, South Carolina Facility 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landair Transport HSS 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Charleston Office 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1808-00020102-05753 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cablecraft Motion Controls LLC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zeus Industrial Products Warehouse 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Precisionmatics, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Sky Products Enterprises, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency IHS Therapy, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR GL Workforce Center 3501 0.7 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, 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.