Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames

Ames, IA · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames: 8.6 TCR = 254% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames: 7.9 → 18.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames's TCR rose 10.1 from 7.9 in 2020 to 18.0 in 2024. In 2024, 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 8.6 · 254% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #199/211
  • PHOTO LMMM San Antonio #3,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LMMM San Antonio #3, LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames averages 8.6 TCR (254% 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. 189 Ames TCR series: 2020=7.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=18 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #199 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames (23 employees, TCR 8.6) 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. 189 Ames
Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames (23 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 189 Ames 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 18.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.9 7.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Ames

30,654 Grocery 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 LMMM San Antonio #3, LTD 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SENECA MALL 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 46-Oxnard 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STOP & SHOP 100831 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 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 CITY OF MARION, ILLINOIS Fire Department 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Flower Manor 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2369 - Fort Myers North 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1459 - Pearland 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 165 Omaha 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grocery Outlet of Coos Bay 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Refining Group - Sandyville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mather Corporation 23 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.