Cotton ginning · Tennessee

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin

Covington, TN · ~13 workers · 4 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

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade C.

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin: 4.7 TCR = 104% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin safety composite

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin: 6.8 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin's TCR rose 5.2 from 6.8 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Covington, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Southwest Cotton Gro…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwest Cotton Growers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin averages 4.7 TCR (104% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=12 · BLS 4.5

Where Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Cotton ginning employers in Tennessee.

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin (13 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 Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin
Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin (13 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin 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
2019 12.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TN · Covington

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 34 employers in Covington, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Southwest Cotton Growers 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Coop Gin 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Portland Gin 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIH Enterprises, Inc 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bryant Brothers 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE fssK 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Porter Roofing Contractors Chattanooga, TN 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Savannah 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charms 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital Tipton 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 93 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 1620 Hermosa Ave #64 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Libraries 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Hospice 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wentzville Hospice 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: 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.