Department Stores · Iowa

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA)

Mount Ayr, IA · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA): 4.9 TCR = 145% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) safety composite

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) held a steady TCR band

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 7.3 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Mount Ayr, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 145% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #38/62
  • PHOTO 0146 - White Bridge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0146 - White Bridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) averages 4.9 TCR (145% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) falls in its industry

4,991 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 62 Department Stores employers in Iowa.

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) (18 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA)
Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) (18 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Shopko Hometown #689 (Mount Ayr, IA) has fewer employees than the Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018 7.5 7.5 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.3 7.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IA · Mount Ayr

4,991 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in Mount Ayr, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0146 - White Bridge 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0792 - Parma 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0894 - Joliet 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1102 - Brentwood 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatteras 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Pork 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Stone 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ringgold County Hospital 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clearview Home & Estates 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR mount ayr health care center 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mt. Ayr - Main Store 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Idaho Milk Products 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MacMulkin Chevrolet inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cai -- Boston Avenue 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Antioch College 4.9 TCR

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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.