Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee

Cherokee, IA · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee: 2.5 TCR = 74% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2020→2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee injury rate improved

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee's TCR fell 2.5 from 2.5 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.5 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #67/211
  • PHOTO FoodTown #012
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FoodTown #012 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee averages 2.5 TCR (74% 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. 502 Cherokee TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2023=5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 84% 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 #67 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee (74 employees, TCR 2.5) 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. 502 Cherokee
Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee (74 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 Cherokee 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Cherokee

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cherokee, 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 FoodTown #012 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #5817 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0045 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0772 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Iowa Falls 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services - ADM Clinton 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mittera - Creative Services 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Cherokee 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee Regional Medical Center 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHS-Cherokee Mental Health Institute 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Cherokee 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Prysmian Group General Cable Lebanon RDC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 235-NiSource-Neville Island PA MOD Site 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4 Track Systems dba StyleLine Windows dba Porch Conversions - Ohio Location 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0045 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fortron Industries 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edison Support Center 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elk Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 978-NiSource-Middleburg Hgts OH-NE Op Ctr 74 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.