Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers · Minnesota

1659 Far4

Columbia Heights, MN · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1659 Far4 runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers workplace, earning a grade F.

1659 Far4: 7.0 TCR = 206% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1659 Far4 safety composite

1659 Far4 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−0.6

2022→2024

1659 Far4 injury rate improved

1659 Far4's TCR fell 0.6 from 7.2 in 2022 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.2 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Columbia Heights, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 206% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #229/327
  • PHOTO Ketchum
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ketchum (0.0 TCR gap)

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1659 Far4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1659 Far4 averages 7.0 TCR (206% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS benchmark).

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

1659 Far4 TCR series: 2022=7.2 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 1659 Far4 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #229 safest of 327 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Minnesota.

1659 Far4 (21 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 1659 Far4
1659 Far4 (21 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

1659 Far4 has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.6 6.6 1 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 1 0 0
2022 7.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Columbia Heights

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 27 employers in Columbia Heights, MN · 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 Ketchum 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 358 Seekonk 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1368 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-362 STORE 362 - BAKERSFIELD 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winthrop Agronomy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donahues Greenhouse 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE M7 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNLOG-SEL-SEL MN LOGISTICS' 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sullivan Lake 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Heights Public Schools ISD#13 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Heights ISD #13 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crest View Corporation 270 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 906 906SH 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy Livingston 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atek Metal Technologies 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 110 Lubbock 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1465 Tul49 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1380 Sxb69 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1284 Hai7 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1271 Bat34 21 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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