Grocery stores · Iowa

Price Chopper - Beaver

Des Moines, IA · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Price Chopper - Beaver runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Price Chopper - Beaver: 4.1 TCR = 122% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Price Chopper - Beaver safety composite

Price Chopper - Beaver 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

2016→2017

Price Chopper - Beaver injury rate improved

Price Chopper - Beaver's TCR fell 2.5 from 5.4 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2017=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 122% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #134/211
  • PHOTO 1401 ADA MARKET
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1401 ADA MARKET (0.0 TCR gap)

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Price Chopper - Beaver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Price Chopper - Beaver averages 4.1 TCR (122% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Price Chopper - Beaver TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Price Chopper - Beaver falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #134 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Price Chopper - Beaver (52 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Price Chopper - Beaver
Price Chopper - Beaver (52 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Price Chopper - Beaver 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
2017 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.4 5.4 2 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 1401 ADA MARKET 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0425 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0698 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0837 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE KE Flatwork Inc. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE WNADGL, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earth Services & Abatement 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snappy Popcorn 52 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 Spires Paving Company 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TPH 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corry Forge Company 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PA035 - Pauley Constr Colorado Springs 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rocky Mountain Stonework, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Hartville LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Sikeston at Clearview Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckhead Meat of North Carolina 52 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.