Homecenter · North Carolina

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc

Forest City, NC · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homecenter workplace, earning a grade D.

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc: 4.8 TCR = 140% of Homecenter BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc safety composite

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−5.6

2023→2024

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc injury rate improved

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc's TCR fell 5.6 from 7.6 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.6 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Forest City, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 140% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #149/294
  • PHOTO Stine Natchez
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stine Natchez (0.0 TCR gap)

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1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc averages 4.8 TCR (140% of the Homecenter BLS benchmark).

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

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc TCR series: 2023=7.6 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc falls in its industry

6,309 Homecenter establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #149 safest of 294 Homecenter employers in North Carolina.

1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc (139 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc
1788 Lowe S of Forest City Nc (139 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

1788 Lowe S of Forest City 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 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2023 7.6 6.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · NC · Forest City

6,309 Homecenter employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Forest City, 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 Stine Natchez 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3631 GARNER 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6502 ALLEN 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8548 LANHAM 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bullington Construction, Inc. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Walls Inc-Greensboro 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Corp Ofc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Specialty Yarn Group, Inc. Valdese 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest City Permanent 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1036 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1036 379 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0322 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JDS Industries 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pullman Sugar LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Westside Garden Plaza 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fitesa Indiana LLC 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Lisle 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0678 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Antelope Valley S/C 139 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.