Grocery stores · Iowa

Price Chopper - Johnston

Name: Price Chopper - Johnston Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Johnston, IA · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.7
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Price Chopper - Johnston runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Price Chopper - Johnston: 6.7 TCR = 196% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Price Chopper - Johnston safety composite

Price Chopper - Johnston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Price Chopper - Johnston: 5.2 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2017

Price Chopper - Johnston's TCR rose 3.0 from 5.2 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 196% of ind

DART 2.7 DART
RANK #185/211
PHOTO Onalaska 24
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Onalaska 24 (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.7
Onalaska 24

6.7
el super #31 f

6.7
Superior Groce

6.7
Cash Saver 511

6.7

What this shows Price Chopper - Johnston averages 6.7 TCR (196% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Price Chopper - Johnston TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=8.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Price Chopper - Johnston falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #185 safest of 211 Grocery stores employers in Iowa.

Price Chopper - Johnston (62 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Price Chopper - Johnston 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
2017	8.2	2.7	3	0	0
2016	5.2	2.6	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Johnston

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 76 employers in Johnston, 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	Onalaska 24	ONALASKA, WI	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	el super #31 foothill	FONTANA, CA	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Superior Grocers 145	EL MONTE, CA	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cash Saver 511	LAWTON, OK	6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Dallas Center DCR9	DALLAS CENTER	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Duane Arnold Energy Center	PALO	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Davenport Branch	DAVENPORT	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rogers Concrete Construction, Inc.	ANAMOSA	62 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Financial Johnston	Johnston	1,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CSC	Johnston	639 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ChildServe Center	Johnston	621 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH60 Franklin	Johnston	486 FTE
NAT-TCR	Tallahassee Center (Fltal)	Tallahassee, FL	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Green Bay Home Care	Depere, WI	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cohber Press, Inc.	W. Henrietta, NY	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jet.com FC-6923	Mccarran, NV	6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Marshall Dekalb Electric Copperative	Boaz, AL	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	East Valley Adult Resources	Mesa, AZ	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Schnell Contractors, Inc - Louisville Kentucky	Louisville, KY	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Tipton LLC	Tipton, MO	62 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.

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