Delinting cottonseed · Texas

West Gaines Seed Inc

Seminole, TX · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Gaines Seed Inc runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Delinting cottonseed workplace, earning a grade A.

West Gaines Seed Inc: 0.4 TCR = 8% of Delinting cottonseed BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Gaines Seed Inc safety composite

West Gaines Seed Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−1.1

2021→2024

West Gaines Seed Inc injury rate improved

West Gaines Seed Inc's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.1 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Seminole, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 8% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/27
  • PHOTO Construction
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Gaines Seed Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Gaines Seed Inc averages 0.4 TCR (8% of the Delinting cottonseed BLS benchmark).

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

West Gaines Seed Inc TCR series: 2021=1.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where West Gaines Seed Inc falls in its industry

666 Delinting cottonseed establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 27 Delinting cottonseed employers in Texas.

West Gaines Seed Inc (71 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate West Gaines Seed Inc
West Gaines Seed Inc (71 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

West Gaines Seed Inc has fewer employees than the Delinting cottonseed median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · TX · Seminole

666 Delinting cottonseed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 20 employers in Seminole, TX · 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 Construction 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corteva Tipton1 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marana, AZ 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1207 Abbott Street 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Innovex Downhole Solutions Andrews 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SYSTEM OPERATIONS 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Location 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Katy Service Center CP29 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wood Group USA Inc., West Texas Service Area 541 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Construction, West Texas Service Area 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 626 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR 626 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Devens 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckman Laboratories, International, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SWCA, Incorporated 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nikola Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE BioFit Engineered Products 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Pacific Technical Services, LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Illinois Oil Marketing Equipment, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Moulding 71 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, 2021. 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.