Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha

Name: Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hiawatha, IA · ~87 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha: 4.8 TCR = 140% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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. 055 Hiawatha: 4.6 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha's TCR rose 2.8 from 4.6 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 140% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #157/211
PHOTO FoodTown #008
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FoodTown #008 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha averages 4.8 TCR (140% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha TCR series: 2020=4.6 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #157 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha (87 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 055 Hiawatha has fewer employees than the Grocery stores 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
2024	7.5	2.5	3
2023	2.2	2.2	1
2020	4.6	4.6	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Hiawatha

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hiawatha, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	FoodTown #008	BAYTOWN, TX	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Grocery Outlet of Newberg Oregon	NEWBERG, OR	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Laguardia Retail Management Corp.	ASTORIA, NY	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Gristedes #543	NEW YORK, NY	4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Croell Concrete Paving Crews East	NEW HAMPTON	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Munson Electric	HIAWATHA	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Estherville Foods Inc	ESTHERVILLE	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mason City Branch	MASON CITY	87 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CCB Packaging	Hiawatha	391 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HAWKEYE AREA COMM ACTION PROGRAM, INC	Hiawatha	307 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CEC	Hiawatha	266 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crystal Group Inc	Hiawatha	240 FTE
NAT-TCR	4301 - High Point, NC	High Point, NC	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Marshville Bakery Feeds	Marshville, NC	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 0056	Lighthouse Point, FL	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gristedes #543	New York, NY	4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	102-BANDERA	Bandera, TX	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	C.W. Roberts Contracting Pensacola Division	Pensacola, FL	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cape Coral Cluster	Cape Coral, FL	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CMC Sheet Metal Inc.	Capitol Heights, MD	87 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.

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