Cotton ginning · Texas

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC

Plainview, TX · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC: 6.0 TCR = 134% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC safety composite

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.9

2017→2024

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC injury rate improved

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC's TCR fell 8.9 from 8.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=35.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 134% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #60/95
  • PHOTO Associated Cotton Gr…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associated Cotton Growers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC averages 6.0 TCR (134% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=35.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #60 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC (17 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC
Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC (17 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Quarterway Cotton Growers, LLC 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 35.1 0.0 6 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Plainview

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 62 employers in Plainview, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Associated Cotton Growers 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Citizens Shallowater Coop Gin 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Agricultural- Danevang 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Coop Gin 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Sherman 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moreman Gin 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willamar Operating, L.P. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Feria Cooperative Gin 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6012 917 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6012 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-20048100 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covenant Health Plainview 320 FTE
NAT-TCR Titan Industries Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Centric Waikiki Beach 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6332 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Toano 6.0 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. 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.