Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars

Name: Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lemars, IA · ~89 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars 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. 719 Lemars: 7.7 TCR = 226% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers
DART rate: F 13.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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. 719 Lemars: 2.6 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.7× in 2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars's TCR rose 13.2 from 2.6 in 2020 to 15.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 226% of ind

DART 13.1 DART
RANK #190/211
PHOTO 090-00296
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 090-00296 (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.7
090-00296

7.7
Nowhere Venice

7.7
Amazon Retail

7.7
MARTIN'S FOOD

7.7

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars averages 7.7 TCR (226% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=15.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #190 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 719 Lemars (89 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. 719 Lemars 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
2024	15.7	13.1	6
2023	4.8	0.0	2
2020	2.6	2.6	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Lemars

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 6 employers in Lemars, 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	090-00296	SIKESTON, MO	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nowhere Venice, LLC	VENICE, CA	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Amazon Retail LLC - MAC1	NAPERVILLE, IL	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MARTIN'S FOOD MARKETS 6299	WINCHESTER, VA	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Centrum Valley Farms Dows	DOWS	89 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ICF Ovation	THOMPSON	89 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Muscatine Power & Water Power Plant	MUSCATINE	89 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative	WILTON	89 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pro-Visions - Le Mars	Lemars	123 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SmithCo Mfg Inc.	Lemars	105 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LeMars Terminal	Lemars	46 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LeMars	Lemars	32 FTE
NAT-TCR	Serco - Bath,ME	Bath, ME	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Planet Aid Inc - Elk	Elkridge, MD	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Clegg's Termite & Pest Control - Smithfield	Smithfield, NC	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Johnson Distributing Company	Valdosta, GA	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Village of St. Edward at Green	Akron, OH	89 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-1902 WEST SAMPLE ST	South Bend, IN	89 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent and Nursing Hospital Inc	Newbury Park, CA	89 FTE
NAT-SIZE	128-GREELEY	Greeley, CO	89 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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