Homecenter · North Carolina

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc

Apex, NC · ~177 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

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homecenter workplace, earning a grade D.

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc: 4.8 TCR = 140% of Homecenter BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc safety composite

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc: 3.8 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc's TCR rose 1.9 from 3.8 in 2023 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 140% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #150/294
  • PHOTO 2389 KUYKENDAHL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2389 KUYKENDAHL (0.0 TCR gap)

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1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1878 Lowe S of Apex 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

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc TCR series: 2023=3.8 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 1878 Lowe S of Apex 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 #150 safest of 294 Homecenter employers in North Carolina.

1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc (177 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 1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc
1878 Lowe S of Apex Nc (177 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

1878 Lowe S of Apex 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 5.7 2.5 7 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · NC · Apex

6,309 Homecenter employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 92 employers in Apex, 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 2389 KUYKENDAHL 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6380 RIVERVIEW 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0626 LOWE S OF SUMTER SC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2541 LOWE S OF CICERO NY 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acme Smoked Fish of NC 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARSHALL 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain : Asheville Rotating Parts 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operation 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crowder Construction Company - Civil & Environmental Division 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donley's Concrete Group LLC 321 FTE
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 133 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PMC Biogenix 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenburnie Operator LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mnwil - Willmar 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oaks on Parkwood 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nygle - Glens Falls 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camer - Merced Center 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown 177 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.