Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing · Iowa

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions

Sheldon, IA · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions safety composite

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions: 3.7 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions's TCR rose 2.1 from 3.7 in 2022 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO River Point Farms Pr…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: River Point Farms Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions falls in its industry

215 Bakery machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #6 safest of 15 Bakery machinery and equipment employers in Iowa.

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions (58 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions
Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions (58 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rome LTD dba Rome Grinding Solutions has fewer employees than the Bakery machinery and equipment manufactu 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
2024 5.9 5.9 4 0 0
2023 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2022 3.7 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IA · Sheldon

215 Bakery machinery and equipment 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 River Point Farms Processing 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H2O innovation USA, inc. Vermont 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cozzini LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advance Process Tech inc 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Oakridge 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Area Office 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE JB Holland Construction, Inc. 58 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 United Regional Health Care System 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - RDU 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR R. F. Chamberland, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomington 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tuscaloosa Hotel Indigo 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSC Pennsylvania 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Outpatient Surgery Center of Hilton Head 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Insulation 58 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.