Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing · Iowa

Rome Grinding Solutions

Sheldon, IA · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rome Grinding Solutions runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Rome Grinding Solutions: 9.6 TCR = 290% of Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rome Grinding Solutions safety composite

Rome Grinding Solutions scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2020→2021

Rome Grinding Solutions injury rate improved

Rome Grinding Solutions's TCR fell 2.0 from 10.6 in 2020 to 8.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.6 · 2021=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Sheldon, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 290% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Pearl Crop Inc, Mode…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pearl Crop Inc, Modesto (0.1 TCR gap)

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Rome Grinding Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rome Grinding Solutions averages 9.6 TCR (290% of the Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rome Grinding Solutions TCR series: 2020=10.6 · 2021=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Rome Grinding Solutions falls in its industry

215 Meat grinders, food-type, manu establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Meat grinders, food-type, manu employers in Iowa.

Rome Grinding Solutions (49 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rome Grinding Solutions
Rome Grinding Solutions (49 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rome Grinding Solutions has fewer employees than the Meat grinders, food-type, 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
2021 8.6 2.1 4 0 0
2020 10.6 4.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IA · Sheldon

215 Meat grinders, food-type, 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 Pearl Crop Inc, Modesto 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Packline Technologies, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raque Food Systems LLC 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rowe's Services, Ltd. 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Marshalltown, IA 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms West 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIPCO - Cedar Rapids 49 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 Kgjl Detention Center - Jail 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Magik Enterprises, Inc 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedano's Supermarket #20 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Flemington 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE AC Plastiques 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americold Skygate, Atlanta GA 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1387 Village of Chatham 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Behr Yale 49 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: 2021, 2020. 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.