Farm product warehousing and storage (except refrigerated) · Texas

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater

Sweetwater, TX · ~22 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm product warehousing and storage (except refrigerated) workplace, earning a grade D.

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater: 8.8 TCR = 152% of Farm product warehousing and storage (except refrigerated) BLS 5.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater safety composite

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−30.9

2016→2023

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater injury rate improved

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater's TCR fell 30.9 from 30.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 30.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=30.9 · 2017=19.4 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.2 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493130 · Sweetwater, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Wanamingo Energy
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wanamingo Energy (0.1 TCR gap)

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Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater averages 8.8 TCR (152% of the Farm product warehousing and storage (except refrigerated) BLS benchmark).

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

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater TCR series: 2016=30.9 · 2017=19.4 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0.2 · 2023=0 · BLS 5.8

Where Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater falls in its industry

77 Farm product warehousing and s establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Farm product warehousing and s employers in Texas.

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater (22 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater
Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater (22 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Plains Cotton Warehouse Sweetwater has fewer employees than the Farm product warehousing and storage (ex median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2017 19.4 14.5 4 0 0
2016 30.9 24.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493130 · TX · Sweetwater

77 Farm product warehousing and storage (except refrigerated) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 23 employers in Sweetwater, 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 Wanamingo Energy 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Grain Growers 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Le Sueur Agronomy 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plains Cotton Warehouse Altus 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matador Ranch 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheeler Land & Livestock, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond B Feedyard, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luckey Custom Feedlot, Inc. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludlum Measurements, Inc. 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Gypsum Sweetwater 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3381 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3381 204 FTE
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Oregon City 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gig Harbor/163 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Massirio Dr 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Companions Forever LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2401 Cumberland Road 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern States Cumberland Coop 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern States Amelia Service 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern States Simpson Coop 22 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: 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.