Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk

Norwalk, IA · ~127 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk: 3.6 TCR = 106% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−4.2

2020→2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk injury rate improved

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk's TCR fell 4.2 from 5.8 in 2020 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.8 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Norwalk, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #109/211
  • PHOTO Apples (Elyria)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Apples (Elyria) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk averages 3.6 TCR (106% 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. 077 Norwalk TCR series: 2020=5.8 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #109 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk (127 employees, TCR 3.6) 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. 077 Norwalk
Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk (127 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 077 Norwalk has more 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2020 5.8 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Norwalk

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 19 employers in Norwalk, 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 Apples (Elyria) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PINOLE GROCERY OUTLET 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 151 CEDAR RAPIDS 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0053 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CR Operations 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Star Yeast Co. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE HNI Information Technologies 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA001 AHM DAVENPORT 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Produce Innovations 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michael Foods - Norwalk 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capital City Fruit, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Windsor Windows and Doors 161 FTE
NAT-TCR S03163 - ND Bismarck 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - LCASPA 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR John Deere Coffeyville Works 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bella Terra Streamwood 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenville Tube Company 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE NRC Environmental Services, Inc. - Seattle 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southpark Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE CKS Kimball 127 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.