Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · Iowa

953AME

Ames, IA · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

953AME runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

953AME: 10.0 TCR = 295% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

953AME safety composite

953AME scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

953AME: 0.0 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

953AME's TCR rose 15.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 15.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 295% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #207/211
  • PHOTO Store 106
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 106 (0.0 TCR gap)

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953AME in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 953AME averages 10.0 TCR (295% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS benchmark).

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

953AME TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=15.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 953AME falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #207 safest of 211 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Iowa.

953AME (51 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 953AME
953AME (51 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

953AME has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C 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
2019 15.6 0.0 4 0 0
2018 14.5 2.1 7 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Ames

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Store 106 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 3314 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bel Air 526-Woodland 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4054-ABS-0005-0004-00879 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allendan Seed Company 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Truck Wash 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Marion Research MRN1 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRS OSI Gen Repair Svc Wind Plt 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR 5729 W Denneys Rd 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Abs 0028 0723 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyon Roofing 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Machine & Tool Foundry 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Danbury Alliance 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolfer's Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospice Care of the Northwest, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 113061-Ftl-Southside Sta 51 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.