Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~89 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines: 4.5 TCR = 131% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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. 900 Des Moines: 2.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.0 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #146/211
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 026
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 026 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines averages 4.5 TCR (131% 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. 900 Des Moines TCR series: 2020=2 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #146 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines (89 employees, TCR 4.5) 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. 900 Des Moines
Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines (89 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 900 Des Moines 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 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 8.7 6.5 4 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Des Moines

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, 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 The Fresh Market 026 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop Rite of Rio Grande 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store #116 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0160 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms Dows 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICF Ovation 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muscatine Power & Water Power Plant 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Marathon Cheese (Medford) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Island Plant 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0160 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0269 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Village of St. Edward at Green 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent and Nursing Hospital Inc 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-1902 WEST SAMPLE ST 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE 128-GREELEY 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.