Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa

Ottumwa, IA · ~96 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa: 7.7 TCR = 226% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−7.0

2020→2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa injury rate improved

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa's TCR fell 7.0 from 11.7 in 2020 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.7 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 226% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #191/211
  • PHOTO SWY-0029-0029-03237 …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0029-0029-03237 FAC-03237-BEVERLY HILLS-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa averages 7.7 TCR (226% 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. 648 Ottumwa TCR series: 2020=11.7 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #191 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa (96 employees, TCR 7.7) 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. 648 Ottumwa
Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa (96 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 648 Ottumwa 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 4.7 2.3 2 0 0
2023 6.7 6.7 3 0 0
2020 11.7 11.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Ottumwa

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, 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 SWY-0029-0029-03237 FAC-03237-BEVERLY HILLS-CA 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyers Food Market Inc - 3588 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10439 Speedway (WO) 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-01491 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Service Center 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7123_18981 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Architectural Wall Systems, LLC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE US093: Indianapolis 331 - SG 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Balcones Recycling- Austin 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Masterpiece Transportation Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint Group Packaging Inks North America Corporation 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0357 - Albuquerque Lomas 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 102 Fairmont 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-910 Nestle Way 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Viele & Sons, Inc. 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE MinnState - Northland Community and Technical College East Grand Forks 96 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.