Ginning cotton · Texas

Southwest Cotton Growers

Wellman, TX · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Cotton Growers runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ginning cotton workplace, earning a grade C.

Southwest Cotton Growers: 4.7 TCR = 104% of Ginning cotton BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Cotton Growers safety composite

Southwest Cotton Growers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Southwest Cotton Growers: 0.0 → 23.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 23.4 TCR · DART/TCR 3.33× in 2022

Southwest Cotton Growers's TCR rose 23.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 23.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 3.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 104% of ind

  • DART 15.6 DART
  • RANK #51/95
  • PHOTO West Portland Gin
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Portland Gin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Cotton Growers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Cotton Growers averages 4.7 TCR (104% of the Ginning cotton BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Cotton Growers TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=23.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Southwest Cotton Growers falls in its industry

194 Ginning cotton establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #51 safest of 95 Ginning cotton employers in Texas.

Southwest Cotton Growers (15 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Southwest Cotton Growers
Southwest Cotton Growers (15 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Southwest Cotton Growers has fewer employees than the Ginning cotton 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
2022 23.4 15.6 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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 · Wellman

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

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR West Portland Gin 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIH Enterprises, Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Coop Gin 4.7 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 Ross Gin 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Joint Council for Economic Opportunity of Clinton & Franklin Counties, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 021 Sdg 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 054/Hallendae Beach 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR West Albany High School 4.7 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: 2022, 2021, 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.