Ginning cotton · North Carolina

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc.

Everetts, NC · ~17 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ginning cotton workplace, earning a grade B.

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 66% of Ginning cotton BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. safety composite

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc.: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.7× in 2024

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Everetts, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Sowega Cotton Hartford
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sowega Cotton Hartford (0.1 TCR gap)

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Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (66% of the Ginning cotton BLS benchmark).

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

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. falls in its industry

194 Ginning cotton establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Ginning cotton employers in North Carolina.

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. (17 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc.
Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. (17 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. has fewer employees than the Ginning cotton 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
2024 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2018 11.7 11.7 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · NC · Everetts

194 Ginning cotton employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Everetts, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sowega Cotton Hartford 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midkiff Farmers Coop 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhineland Coopertive Gin 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayside-Richardson Cooperative Gin Company, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCE 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinston Work Center 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Office 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATLS Cree 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everetts 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weitron, Everetts, NC Facility 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant HW 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Express Delivery Services, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Persimmon Ridge Rehabilitation Centre 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ewing-Doherty Mechanical, Inc. 3.0 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, 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.