Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Iowa

Norwesco Sheldon

Sheldon, IA · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norwesco Sheldon runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Norwesco Sheldon: 8.7 TCR = 262% of Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norwesco Sheldon safety composite

Norwesco Sheldon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Norwesco Sheldon: 0.0 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2018

Norwesco Sheldon's TCR rose 17.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 17.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Sheldon, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 262% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #41/63
  • PHOTO 44th St. Assembly
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 44th St. Assembly (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norwesco Sheldon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norwesco Sheldon averages 8.7 TCR (262% of the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Norwesco Sheldon TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=17.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Norwesco Sheldon falls in its industry

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #41 safest of 63 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi employers in Iowa.

Norwesco Sheldon (26 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Norwesco Sheldon
Norwesco Sheldon (26 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Norwesco Sheldon has fewer employees than the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, 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
2018 17.8 10.7 5 0 0
2017 8.1 4.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IA · Sheldon

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing 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 44th St. Assembly 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trilogy Plastics Plant 2 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patterson Assembly 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Old Town Fiberglass, Inc 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 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 PETROVA 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MBTECHNOLOGY,INC 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lodge of Four Seeasons, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Erie Forge and Steel Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakewood Products, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samuel Packaging Systems 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Age- Inman 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fidelitone - Albuquerque 3 26 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.