General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Sheldon Medical Center

Sheldon, IA · ~219 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheldon Medical Center runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Sheldon Medical Center: 3.0 TCR = 41% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheldon Medical Center safety composite

Sheldon Medical Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Sheldon Medical Center held a steady TCR band

Sheldon Medical Center's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.2 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.2 · 2023=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Sheldon, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 3.0 · 41% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #30/160
  • PHOTO Graham Hospital
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Graham Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheldon Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheldon Medical Center averages 3.0 TCR (41% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Sheldon Medical Center TCR series: 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Sheldon Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Sheldon Medical Center (219 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheldon Medical Center
Sheldon Medical Center (219 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Sheldon Medical Center has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 2.9 1.2 5 0 0
2022 3.2 0.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Sheldon

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 Graham Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgeview Waconia 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2643-16270001-162701 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Outer Banks Health Hospital 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Machine Shop (A Unit of IDEX Corporation) 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10D8145 PHARMA CLEAR LAKE 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slater R&D 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Produce Innovations 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheldon Facility 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Wyk, Inc. 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR IA,SHELDON - Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maintainer Corporation of Iowa 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5240 Northport, AL 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4650 Olympia, WA 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Worth F&D Head Company 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Hydraulics, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE #1 Admin, O/S Crews, ASC-DTAC, Trans 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newark Liberty International Airport 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit 447 219 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.