Cotton ginning · Texas

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc.

Taft, TX · ~12 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade F.

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc.: 11.9 TCR = 265% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. safety composite

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. held a steady TCR band

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 7.7 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=20.4 · 2021=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 265% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #89/95
  • PHOTO Coffee Co Gin County…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~12 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coffee Co Gin County Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. averages 11.9 TCR (265% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=20.4 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #89 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. (12 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc.
Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. (12 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Taft Gin & Seed Co., Inc. 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
2021 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2017 20.4 8.1 5 0 0
2016 7.7 7.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Taft

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Taft, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Coffee Co Gin County Inc 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Floydada Coop Gin #2 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Cooperative Association Stanton 11.1 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 Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers 12 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWE Renewables Services LLC-Papalote Creek I 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midway Gin and Grain Cooperative 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 114-TAFT 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Portland Gin 9 FTE
NAT-TCR Pioneer Meats, Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bath Manor Limited Partnership 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomas R Moran Construction Company 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ford's Redi mix Concrete 11.9 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: 2021, 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.