Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Iowa

Shell Rock Plant

Shell Rock, IA · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shell Rock Plant runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shell Rock Plant: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shell Rock Plant safety composite

Shell Rock Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Shell Rock Plant: 1.6 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2020

Shell Rock Plant's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Shell Rock, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #13/49
  • PHOTO Valero Jefferson Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valero Jefferson Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shell Rock Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shell Rock Plant averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shell Rock Plant TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Shell Rock Plant falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 71% 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 49 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Iowa.

Shell Rock Plant (54 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Shell Rock Plant
Shell Rock Plant (54 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Shell Rock Plant has more employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a lower 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
2020 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Shell Rock

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 11 employers in Shell Rock, 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 Valero Jefferson Plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining Mitchell LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Biorefining - North Manchester 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC d/b/a Valero Mount Vernon Plant 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unverferth Manufacturing, Shell Rock Iowa Location 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinity Rail Maintenance Services #4036 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shell Rock Healthcare 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shell Rock Senior Living 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 117 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Post Press Specialtites 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ARYZTA - Ontario 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Team Pikes Peak - OfficeScapes 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Puratos Rancho Dominguez 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yamaha Golf Car Corporation 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buchi Brewery 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 54 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: 2020, 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.