Homecenter · North Carolina

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc

Gastonia, NC · ~197 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homecenter workplace, earning a grade D.

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc: 6.7 TCR = 197% of Homecenter BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc safety composite

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc: 6.5 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc's TCR rose 0.4 from 6.5 in 2023 to 6.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 197% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #244/294
  • PHOTO ROCHESTER NORTH MN -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ROCHESTER NORTH MN - 3314 (0.0 TCR gap)

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0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc averages 6.7 TCR (197% of the Homecenter BLS benchmark).

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

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc TCR series: 2023=6.5 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc falls in its industry

6,309 Homecenter establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #244 safest of 294 Homecenter employers in North Carolina.

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc (197 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc
0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc (197 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

0457 Lowe S of Franklin Square Nc 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 6.9 5.4 9 0 0
2023 6.5 5.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · NC · Gastonia

6,309 Homecenter employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 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 ROCHESTER NORTH MN - 3314 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1723 LOWE S OF GLOUCESTER VA 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1827 LOWE S OF BROOKSVILLE FL 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2831 FERGUS FALLS 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sealing Agents 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 36-37 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burt's Bees 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yale Security Inc. - Norton Door 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Safe Berks 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Careone at Wall 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Town Trolley Tours of Savannah Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 272 Richmond Ctr 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventura Foods - Opelousas 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ctora - Orange 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insob - South Bend Center 197 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.

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