Cotton ginning · Texas

Ross Gin

Mercedes, TX · ~15 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross Gin runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade B.

Ross Gin: 2.4 TCR = 53% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross Gin safety composite

Ross Gin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.04 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

Ross Gin: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 3.39× in 2023

Ross Gin's TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Mercedes, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #15/95
  • PHOTO WesTex Coop Gin - O'…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WesTex Coop Gin - O'Donnell (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross Gin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross Gin averages 2.4 TCR (53% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Ross Gin TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Ross Gin falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #15 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Ross Gin (15 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Ross Gin
Ross Gin (15 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Ross Gin 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
2023 8.0 8.0 1 0 0
2022 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 1 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 · TX · Mercedes

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 15 employers in Mercedes, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR WesTex Coop Gin - O'Donnell 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCord Gin Company, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westside Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Semi Tropic Gin & Almond Huller 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Cooperative Gin 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wells Farmers Cooperative gin 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 67 Gin Co., Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockney Coop Gin 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Office 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen TX FXFE-HRL 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Location 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid Valley Nursing and Rehabilitaiton 98 FTE
NAT-TCR Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br15 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Blossom 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR John W Danforth Company 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 55432 Midway RAC 2.4 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.