Cotton ginning · Texas

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator

Name: United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

El Campo, TX · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator: 6.3 TCR = 140% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator safety composite

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator: 6.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2020

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator's TCR rose 0.6 from 6.0 in 2019 to 6.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · El Campo, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 140% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #65/95
PHOTO TJ Beall Company
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TJ Beall Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator averages 6.3 TCR (140% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator (24 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

United Agricultural Cooperation- Hillje Gin & Elevator 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
2020	6.6	3.3	2	0	0
2019	6.0	3.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · El Campo

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 22 employers in El Campo, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	TJ Beall Company	GREENWOOD, MS	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Farmers Coop Association- Eldorado	ELDORADO, OK	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lonestar Gin, LP	PAMPA, TX	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valley Gin Company	TORNILLO, TX	6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Treesap Farms LLC - Sales	HOUSTON	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Springlake Dairy LLC	MULESHOE	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pineywoods Farm	CENTER	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Darty Gin Inc	DOUGHERTY	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Greenleaf Nursery Company	El Campo	302 FTE
CITY-NEAR	344	El Campo	196 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 344	El Campo	192 FTE
CITY-NEAR	RedTail Hawk Solar Project	El Campo	174 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sharp Rees-Stealy-MME	San Diego, CA	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mercy Health The Assumption Village	Youngstown, OH	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fire Academy	Sayreville, NJ	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cathcart Construction Company Florida LLC Main Office	Oviedo, FL	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Shell 510	Mcminnville, OR	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GF Properties Group, LLC	Durango, CO	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arthur	Arthur, ND	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Zander Press Inc	Brillion, WI	24 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: 2020, 2019. 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.