Cotton ginning · South Carolina

Rickenbaker Gin Inc

Summerton, SC · ~16 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rickenbaker Gin Inc runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade B.

Rickenbaker Gin Inc: 2.6 TCR = 59% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rickenbaker Gin Inc safety composite

Rickenbaker Gin Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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)
C 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Rickenbaker Gin Inc: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2019

Rickenbaker Gin Inc's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Summerton, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 59% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Sowega Cotton Gin & …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sowega Cotton Gin & Warehouse, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rickenbaker Gin Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rickenbaker Gin Inc averages 2.6 TCR (59% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Rickenbaker Gin Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Rickenbaker Gin Inc falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Cotton ginning employers in South Carolina.

Rickenbaker Gin Inc (16 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Rickenbaker Gin Inc
Rickenbaker Gin Inc (16 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Rickenbaker Gin Inc has fewer employees than the Cotton ginning median and a lower 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
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · SC · Summerton

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sowega Cotton Gin & Warehouse, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birome Gin Company, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humphrey Coker Seed Company Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bernie Farmers Gin Holdings, LLC 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE S2 Farms, LLC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE York Operations Center 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pickens SC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services Inc at Bushy Park 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Marion Nursing Facility - 005 112 FTE
NAT-TCR JSC Terminal LLC, dba Midwest Terminal 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Botsford Hospital 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Labels - Fulton 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gripnail Corporation 2.6 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: 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.