Blog Posts
November 2021
Trust Issues Safety Alert for Lockout/Tagout
TCGA member gins have experienced several significant accidents in the past few days. In response, the trust has issued a safety alert in [...]
Emphasize Safety as You Start Ginning
The Ginners’ Trust wants to remind everyone to encourage safety as the season starts. We have already seen three severe, reportable accidents in [...]
5th Circuit Extends Stay for Covid Rule
On Friday night, a three-judge panel extended the stay of the Covid Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). The next step will be for the [...]
Update on Covid Emergency Temporary Standard
As you have heard, OSHA released its Covid Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) last Friday. On Saturday, a “Stay” was issued by the 5th [...]
OSHA Issues Emergency Temporary Standard for Covid, Stay Granted by Fifth Circuit
OSHA issued their Covid Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for general industry on Friday, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has already granted [...]
August 2021
Safety Alert From Texas Cotton Ginners’ Trust
Texas Cotton Ginners' Trust has issued a new safety alert, and has asked us to pass it along to you all. Please review [...]
June 2021
Can’t Make the Summer Meeting? Join by Zoom from your Office.
We are expecting a good crowd in Austin for the Summer meeting, taking place in just a few days! If you are unable [...]
2020 Air Emissions Inventory Verification
For those of you that had to submit an Emissions Inventory Report earlier this year, TCEQ recently started to send out the 2020 [...]
El Campo District Meeting on Monday June 21 – Also Available on Zoom
TCGA has begun our District Meeting process. We will have our District Meetings in person this year on the usual pre-Covid schedule. In [...]
May 2021
REMINDER – TCGA 2020-2021 Gin Cost Survey
It is that time of year again to complete the TCGA Gin Cost Survey. YOUR RESPONSES ARE NEEDED ASAP! We plan to have [...]
Essential Workers – Essential Protections Webinars Scheduled
The Wage and Hour Division has scheduled a group of webinars targeted to Covid-19 and essential workers. Gin workers continued to work throughout [...]
USDA Publishes Updated Module Feeder Camera Specifications
USDA has just published an updated paper with the specifications and pricing for gins that would like to install their own camera system [...]
March 2021
Ginners Receiving Fraudulent Unemployment Claims
Two of our gin members have received notices from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) of an employee that has filed for unemployment benefits. [...]
TCGA Mail System Repaired – Please Read Below
TCGA discovered today that an improper setting in our email system was causing all of our emails to be blocked in the PCCA [...]
Deadline Extended for Entering Injury/Illness Data into OSHA Portal – Don’t forget to post your OSHA 300a
OSHA announced today that Employers may still submit their OSHA 300A data into the OSHA Web Portal. The portal had some significant technical [...]
