Crop driers manufacturing · Iowa

Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility

Sheffield, IA · ~623 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Crop driers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
210
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility's OSHA Total Case Rate of 8.4 to the Crop driers manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (254% of benchmark) across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 333111.

Where Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility falls in its industry

467 Crop driers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 67 Crop driers manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Trend analysis for Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility

Between 2021 and 2024, Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 9.9 to 9.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 5% decrease across 3 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 6.9, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 9.9, a spread of 3.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 4 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 4 reporting years, Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility recorded 210 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 210 injuries, 11 illnesses shown on this page for Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility are sourced from its own 4 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 333111 - Crop driers manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

35 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,399,644 hours worked = 5.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility (this establishment) 8.37 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg
Irrigation equipment, agriculture, manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 333111
Iowa state avg (all industries) 5.33 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 9.4 5.0 63 3 0
2023 6.9 5.0 45 2 0
2022 7.2 4.1 42 2 0
2021 9.9 6.2 60 4 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility's reported OSHA injury record versus its Crop driers manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 254% of the Crop driers manufacturing benchmark, Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Crop driers manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility's safety grade?
Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 8.4 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Crop driers manufacturing.
How many injuries has Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility reported?
Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility has reported 210 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 4 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.