Cotton ginning · Alabama

Sowega Cotton Hartford

Hartford, AL · ~33 workers · 6 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

Sowega Cotton Hartford runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade B.

Sowega Cotton Hartford: 3.0 TCR = 67% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sowega Cotton Hartford safety composite

Sowega Cotton Hartford scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−2.9

2016→2021

Sowega Cotton Hartford injury rate improved

Sowega Cotton Hartford's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Hartford, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO FArmers Coop Associa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sowega Cotton Hartford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sowega Cotton Hartford averages 3.0 TCR (67% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Sowega Cotton Hartford TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Sowega Cotton Hartford falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Cotton ginning employers in Alabama.

Sowega Cotton Hartford (33 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 Sowega Cotton Hartford
Sowega Cotton Hartford (33 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Sowega Cotton Hartford has more 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.3 3.1 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.9 2.9 2 0 0
2016 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · AL · Hartford

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 9 employers in Hartford, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moreman Gin 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midkiff Farmers Coop 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fulton Logging Company 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harris 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Division Phenix City Office 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobile Division Eight Mile Crew Headquarters 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Performance LLC 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR HARTFORD HEALTH CARE 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford Healthcare 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wiregrass Electric Cooperative 64 FTE
NAT-TCR HEXPOL Compounding LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinova, Inc Brunswick 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR A. C. Dellovade INC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Chemical & Textiles 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nystrom Electric Company, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philadelphia Maintenance Center 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Addvantage Triton LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 33 FTE

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: 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.