Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Indiana

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville

Shelbyville, IN · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville safety composite

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville: 6.3 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville's TCR rose 4.1 from 6.3 in 2020 to 10.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Shelbyville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #12/20
  • PHOTO Poet Biorefining - G…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poet Biorefining - Groton (0.0 TCR gap)

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POET Biorefining - Shelbyville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows POET Biorefining - Shelbyville averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville TCR series: 2020=6.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.4 · BLS 3.3

Where POET Biorefining - Shelbyville falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 20 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Indiana.

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville (43 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate POET Biorefining - Shelbyville
POET Biorefining - Shelbyville (43 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET Biorefining - Shelbyville has fewer employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 10.4 4.2 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.3 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IN · Shelbyville

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in Shelbyville, IN · 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 Poet Biorefining - Groton 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (VRF) - Valero Bluffton Plant 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Fork Farms 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IN Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kosciusko REMC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana Grand 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE INDIANAPOLIS 877 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ryobi Die Casting (USA) INC 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penske : 5076-00 Kroger-DCM/Shelbyville, IN 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Bush Brothers & Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR West Liberty Foods 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Outlook nebraska 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Springs Construction, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Co-op Services Inc of Baudette 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Estabrook Corporation 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tarco Roofing Materials 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olsen Chain & Cable Co Inc. 43 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.