Grocery stores · Iowa

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls

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

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls safety composite

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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. 974 Cedar Falls: 2.1 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.1 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #90/211
  • PHOTO Price Rite Store 210…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Price Rite Store 210 Henrietta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls averages 3.0 TCR (89% 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. 974 Cedar Falls TCR series: 2020=2.1 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #90 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls (96 employees, TCR 3.0) 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. 974 Cedar Falls
Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls (96 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Cedar Falls

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 88 employers in Cedar Falls, 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 Price Rite Store 210 Henrietta 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop Rite Of Livingston 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShopRite of Palisades Park 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #276 3.0 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 John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center 1,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls IA DC 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls DC 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Home Services 752 FTE
NAT-TCR Star 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Noblesville 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #276 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0226 3.0 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.