Blending animal feed · Iowa

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon

Sheldon, IA · ~56 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon runs at 333% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blending animal feed workplace, earning a grade F.

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon: 13.0 TCR = 333% of Blending animal feed BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon safety composite

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon: 7.7 → 16.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 24.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon's TCR rose 8.3 from 7.7 in 2019 to 16.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 24.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Sheldon, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 333% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #59/62
  • PHOTO RRC - Birdfood
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RRC - Birdfood (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon averages 13.0 TCR (333% of the Blending animal feed BLS benchmark).

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

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon TCR series: 2019=7.7 · 2020=7 · 2021=16.9 · 2022=24.6 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=16 · BLS 3.9

Where Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon falls in its industry

756 Blending animal feed establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 62 Blending animal feed employers in Iowa.

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon (56 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon
Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon (56 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon has more employees than the Blending animal feed median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 16.0 9.3 12 0 0
2023 5.7 4.3 4 0 0
2022 24.6 18.8 17 0 0
2021 16.9 12.6 12 0 0
2020 7.0 4.2 5 0 0
2019 7.7 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Sheldon

756 Blending animal feed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 29 employers in Sheldon, IA · 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 RRC - Birdfood 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craig Feed Mill 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vitalix Inc 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Furst-McNess Company (Storm Lake) 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Area Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rinderknecht Associates, Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Cities Engineering 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cresco Food Technologies 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheldon Facility 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Wyk, Inc. 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheldon Medical Center 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR IA,SHELDON - Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 188 FTE
NAT-TCR TXD033 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Cabinets & Millworks, Inc 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gardens at Barry Road 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Acme-Shorey Precast Company Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Runnings of Brookings 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joel Olson Trucking, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brantley Telephone Company 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Hall 56 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, 2020, 2019. 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.