Cotton ginning · Texas

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers

Springlake, TX · ~12 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers: 7.1 TCR = 157% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers safety composite

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 157% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #69/95
  • PHOTO Farmers Co-op Gin
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~12 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farmers Co-op Gin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers averages 7.1 TCR (157% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=21.5 · 2022=10.8 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #69 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers (12 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 0102030405060 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers
Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers (12 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers has fewer employees than the Cotton ginning 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
2023 10.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 10.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 21.5 7.2 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.1 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 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 · Springlake

194 Cotton ginning 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 Farmers Co-op Gin 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lee Wilson & Company LLC 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spade Coop Gin 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Cooperative Association- Martha 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Producers Co-op Gin Company 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yoakum County Co-op Gin 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Gin 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE TriCounty Producers Coop 12 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Street 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc1872) 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bios Corporate Office 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 12692 Freetown-Lakeville 7.1 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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