Cotton ginning · Arizona

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin

Buckeye, AZ · ~16 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade F.

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin: 9.8 TCR = 218% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin safety composite

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin: 0.0 → 21.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.15× in 2018

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin's TCR rose 21.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 21.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Buckeye, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 218% of ind

  • DART 21.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO BRITZ GIN PARTNERSHI…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRITZ GIN PARTNERSHIP II (0.0 TCR gap)

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OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin averages 9.8 TCR (218% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=21.1 · BLS 4.5

Where OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Cotton ginning employers in Arizona.

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin (16 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin
OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin (16 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin 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 21.1 21.1 3 0 0
2017 8.3 4.2 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · AZ · Buckeye

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 82 employers in Buckeye, AZ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR BRITZ GIN PARTNERSHIP II 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Early Co Gin, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hi Grade Gin Corporation 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNITED AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE INC-DANEVANG LOCATION 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butler Valley Ranch 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arizona Drilling and Blasting 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aquatech International LLC. (Intel, Chandler, AZ) 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Home Alliance, LLC 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZ State Prison Complex - Lewis 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Az Department of Corrections 1,162 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASPC-Lewis 1,134 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6031 964 FTE
NAT-TCR Holland - LE 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CB104 - South Bend,IN 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux Falls - 20 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-784-Pottery Barn Kids 9.8 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: 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.