Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City

Name: Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Mason City, IA · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City: 2.8 TCR = 82% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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. 491 Mason City: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 82% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #85/211
PHOTO T&W Supermarket, Inc.
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T&W Supermarket, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City averages 2.8 TCR (82% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City (76 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 491 Mason City 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
2024	5.8	2.9	2
2023	2.6	2.6	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Mason City

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 126 employers in Mason City, 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	T&W Supermarket, Inc.	BALDWIN, WI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Giant Eagle #4012	HERMITAGE, PA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Piggly Wiggly 185	ST. GEORGE, SC	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 0622	MARCO ISLAND, FL	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. - Durant, IA SPSC	DURANT	76 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Pollution Control (WPC)	CEDAR RAPIDS	76 FTE
STATE-SIZE	P&G Iowa City	IOWA CITY	76 FTE
STATE-SIZE	General Constructors Inc.	BETTENDORF	76 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center East Campus	Mason City	1,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE	Mason City	1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center	Mason City	1,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CURRIES	Mason City	683 FTE
NAT-TCR	11316 - Sullivan West	Youngsville, NY	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Piggly Wiggly 185	St. George, SC	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Maryland Portable Concrete Elkton Plant	Elkton, MD	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Concrete Polishing Technologies, Inc.	Norris, TN	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	B & E Convalescent Center INC	Santa Fe Springs, CA	76 FTE
NAT-SIZE	106-NiSource-Columbus OH-Manor Park	Columbus, OH	76 FTE
NAT-SIZE	385-NiSource-LaPorte IN-Operating HQ	Laporte, IN	76 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Clean and Green Services, LLC	Montverde, FL	76 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.