Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing · Iowa

Rome

Sheldon, IA · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rome runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rome: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rome safety composite

Rome scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−1.4

2016→2019

Rome injury rate improved

Rome's TCR fell 1.4 from 8.0 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Belshaw Adamatic Bak…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Belshaw Adamatic Bakery Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rome in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rome averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rome TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Rome falls in its industry

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixer establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #10 safest of 15 Food choppers, grinders, mixer employers in Iowa.

Rome (40 employees, TCR 6.3) 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
Rome (40 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rome has fewer employees than the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and sli 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
2019 6.6 4.4 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.6 7.9 4 0 0
2016 8.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IA · Sheldon

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-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 Belshaw Adamatic Bakery Group 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ninkasi Brewing Company LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brown International LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vendome Copper & Brass Works, Inc. 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Cogen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Energy Cooperative 40 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 Challenger Designs 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR P & C Roofing, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Educational Bus Transportation 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Departamento De Finanzas 13103 00 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE WTQUI 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale McCook 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastwood Elementary School 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grocery Depot #8219 40 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: 2019, 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.