Cotton ginning · Texas

Valley Gin Company

Tornillo, TX · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Gin Company runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley Gin Company: 6.4 TCR = 142% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Gin Company safety composite

Valley Gin Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−1.6

2016→2024

Valley Gin Company injury rate improved

Valley Gin Company's TCR fell 1.6 from 10.0 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.0 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.6 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #66/95
  • PHOTO Lee Wilson & Company…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lee Wilson & Company Gin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Gin Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Gin Company averages 6.4 TCR (142% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Gin Company TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.6 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Valley Gin Company falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #66 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Valley Gin Company (22 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Valley Gin Company
Valley Gin Company (22 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Valley Gin Company 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
2024 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2023 6.5 6.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 14.4 9.6 3 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2016 10.0 10.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Tornillo

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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Lee Wilson & Company Gin 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Coop Association- Eldorado 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TJ Beall Company 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Coop Society #1 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matador Ranch 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheeler Land & Livestock, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond B Feedyard, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luckey Custom Feedlot, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Harlan Bakeries - Avon 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Entire Company 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Koerner Distributor, Inc. - Effingham 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aqua Creek Products 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valu Home Center #22 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ekstrom & Schmidt Nursery, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valu Home Center #17 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valu Home Center #33 22 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.