Industry profile · NAICS 115111

Cotton ginning

Workplace injury rates across 250 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

250
Employers
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
BLS benchmark
1,262
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Cotton ginning average 5.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.2 times the BLS national benchmark of 4.5.

5.5
avg TCR · reporting employers
4.5
BLS national benchmark
250
employers reporting
1,262
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Cotton ginning Safety Data Reveals

The Cotton ginning sector (NAICS 115111) encompasses 250 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 1,262 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 4.5 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 5.5 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Cotton ginning that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
New Home Coop Gin Meadow, TX C 4.0
Southwest Gin of Texas Limited Morton, TX C 4.0
Coffee Cotton Gin Co., Inc Douglas, GA C 4.0
Bemis Gin, LLC Jackson, TN C 4.0
Farmers Cooperative Gin, Inc. Buttonwillow, CA C 3.9
Vanduser Gin Co Inc Vanduser, MO C 3.9
Ppf Gin and Warehouse, LLC Cooper, TX C 3.9
Central Rolling Plains Co-op Roscoe, TX C 3.8
Sandy Ridge Cotton Co. LLC Malden, MO C 3.8
Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin Ropesville, TX C 3.7
Doerun Gin Company, Inc Doerun, GA C 3.6
Hale Center Gin, LLC Plainview, TX C 3.6
Bogue Chitto Gin Macon, MS C 3.6
Glasscock County Coop St Lawrence, TX B 3.6
Caprock Gin Inc Ralls, TX B 3.5
B.C.T. Gin Co.,Inc. Quitman, GA B 3.5
Top Of Texas Gin Hereford, TX B 3.3
Cotton Gin Senath, MO B 3.3
United Gin Corporation Lamesa, TX B 3.3
Carson County Gin LLC White Deer, TX B 3.2
Lockney Coop Gin Lockney, TX B 3.2
Moreman Gin Port Lavaca, TX B 3.1
FArmers Coop Association Lomax Plant Big Spring, TX B 3.0
Sowega Cotton Hartford Hartford, AL B 3.0
Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. Everetts, NC B 3.0
Midkiff Farmers Coop Midkiff Farmers Coop, TX B 2.9
Rhineland Coopertive Gin Munday, TX B 2.9
Bayside-Richardson Cooperative Gin Company, Inc. Woodsboro, TX B 2.9
Tibbs Gin Brownsville, TN B 2.9
Coastal Bend Cooperative Gin Corpus Christi, TX B 2.8
Idalou Coop Gin Idalou, TX B 2.8
Cotton Partners, LLC Hazlehurst, GA B 2.8
Ag Producers Coop - Plainview Cotton Plainview, TX B 2.7
Wall Coop Gin Wall, TX B 2.7
Violet Gin & Grain Co., Inc Robstown, TX B 2.7
Humphrey Coker Seed Company Inc Hartsville, SC B 2.7
Bernie Farmers Gin Holdings, LLC Malden, MO B 2.7
Sowega Cotton Gin & Warehouse, LLC Climax, GA B 2.6
Rickenbaker Gin Inc Summerton, SC B 2.6
Birome Gin Company, Inc. Birome, TX B 2.6
Harvey Gin Lagrange, NC B 2.6
Mereta Coop Mereta, TX B 2.6
D & J Gin Incorporated Lockney, TX B 2.6
Big Creek Gin Co., Inc. Lyon, MS B 2.6
Petersburg Cooperative Gin Petersburg, TX B 2.5
Servico Courtland, AL B 2.5
Ag Producers Coop - Olton Cotton Olton, TX B 2.5
Semi Tropic Gin & Almond Huller Wasco, CA B 2.5
McCord Gin Company, Inc Gideon, MO B 2.4
Ross Gin Mercedes, TX B 2.4
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This sector averages 5.5 against a BLS benchmark of 4.5 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.