Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon

Sheldon, IA · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon: 2.6 TCR = 76% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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)
B 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Sheldon, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 76% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #70/211
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 131
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 131 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon averages 2.6 TCR (76% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #70 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon (58 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon
Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon (58 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 021 Sheldon has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower 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 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2023 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Sheldon

30,654 Grocery stores 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 The Fresh Market 131 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FoodTown #208 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kuhns Markets Mcknight 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0078 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Oakridge 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Area Office 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE JB Holland Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheldon Facility 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Wyk, Inc. 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheldon Medical Center 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR IA,SHELDON - Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 188 FTE
NAT-TCR SSI Technologies Palmer 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-24385 NANDINA AVE 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 115-E Bernard 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vistamark Enterprises, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 099 Worthington 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 008-LITTLEFIELD 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE NSK Plainfield Warehouse 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWL Automation LLC 58 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, 2020. 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.