The Southern Cotton Ginners Association's safety program, initiated in 1990, has helped member gins comply with safety regulations and reduce accidents. The program encourages and helps gins to develop their own formal written safety program, guard machinery in their gin, and conduct gin safety educational programs for employees. Local gin safety schools and seminars are conducted which have attracted 1100 gin employees in the last three years. Our accident surveys reveal that between 1992 and 1995, 31 percent of the accidents happened in the press area, 15 percent occurred in lint cleaners, 10 percent were associated with gin stands, and 10 percent occurred on tractors or trailers on the gin yard.