Cotton ginning · Texas

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative

Taft, TX · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative: 7.6 TCR = 169% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative safety composite

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative: 0.0 → 19.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 19.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2018

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative's TCR rose 19.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 19.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #75/95
  • PHOTO Terry County Coop
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Terry County Coop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative averages 7.6 TCR (169% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3 · 2018=19.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #75 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative (25 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative
Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative (25 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative 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
2018 19.7 14.8 4 0 0
2017 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Taft

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Taft, 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 Terry County Coop 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RGV Gin Company, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hereford Farmers Gin Assoc. Inc 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Ginning Company 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Farms of Monahans 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Feeders, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Three Feed Yard, Ltd 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 501-508 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWE Renewables Services LLC-Papalote Creek I 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR 114-TAFT 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR TAFT GIN & SEED CO., INC. 12 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Portland Gin 9 FTE
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #96 (Redding, CA) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Street IRA 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Rocky Mount 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 029 ABC Supply Co., inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mid State Construction Company Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accella Polyurethane Chattanooga 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Family Health Adult Counseling Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manning Construction LLC 25 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: 2018, 2017, 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.