Cotton ginning · California

Modern Ginning Company

Blythe, CA · ~68 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Modern Ginning Company runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Modern Ginning Company: 7.8 TCR = 174% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Modern Ginning Company safety composite

Modern Ginning Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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 7.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−4.8

2017→2024

Modern Ginning Company injury rate improved

Modern Ginning Company's TCR fell 4.8 from 12.8 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.8 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=12.3 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Blythe, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Midway Gin and Grain…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative (0.2 TCR gap)

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Modern Ginning Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Modern Ginning Company averages 7.8 TCR (174% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Modern Ginning Company TCR series: 2017=12.8 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=12.3 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Modern Ginning Company falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Cotton ginning employers in California.

Modern Ginning Company (68 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 020406080 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Modern Ginning Company
Modern Ginning Company (68 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Modern Ginning Company 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 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2023 7.9 4.0 2 0 0
2022 12.3 12.3 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2019 6.7 3.3 2 0 0
2018 11.4 11.4 3 0 0
2017 12.8 8.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · CA · Blythe

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Blythe, CA · 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 Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willamar Operating, L.P. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-County Gin 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terry County Coop 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Valley Land Co. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCFFO 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE VinePro Vineyard Management, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knights Grapevine Nursery 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 548 1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ironwood State Prison 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHUCKAWALLA VALLEY STATE PRISON 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Verde Healthcare District 121 FTE
NAT-TCR Hannah B G Shaw Home, Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Park Sunset Food Mart, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Climate Systems, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Swedes Industries 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 208BRR 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mentz 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Power Delivery (Columbia) 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cope Generating Plant 68 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.