Homecenter · Virginia

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va.

Chesapeake, VA · ~178 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homecenter workplace, earning a grade D.

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va.: 6.0 TCR = 177% of Homecenter BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. safety composite

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−3.9

2023→2024

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. injury rate improved

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va.'s TCR fell 3.9 from 8.0 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.0 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Chesapeake, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #145/198
  • PHOTO EVENDALE OH - 3311
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EVENDALE OH - 3311 (0.0 TCR gap)

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0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. averages 6.0 TCR (177% of the Homecenter BLS benchmark).

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

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. falls in its industry

6,309 Homecenter establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #145 safest of 198 Homecenter employers in Virginia.

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. (178 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va.
0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. (178 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

0439 Lowe S of Chesapeake Va. has more employees than the Homecenter 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
2024 4.1 4.1 5 0 0
2023 8.0 7.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · VA · Chesapeake

6,309 Homecenter employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, VA · 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 EVENDALE OH - 3311 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FREEPORT IL - 3250 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-2228 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-0408 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE EAC 6230A VIRGINIA PAVING COMPANY 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 3 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexandria 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1065 LOWE S OF NORFOLK VA. 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR Aluma Tower Company 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 073 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascade Engineering Technologies, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Apple Rehab West Haven 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 055 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waltco Inc 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 583 - San Antonio Tx 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Transport - 606 606SH 178 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. 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.