Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #125

Kernersville, NC · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #125 runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Lowes Foods #125: 8.1 TCR = 238% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #125 safety composite

Lowes Foods #125 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Lowes Foods #125: 0.0 → 16.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Lowes Foods #125's TCR rose 16.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 16.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Kernersville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 238% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1555/1627
  • PHOTO LAWNSIDE SHOPRITE, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAWNSIDE SHOPRITE, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #125 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #125 averages 8.1 TCR (238% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Lowes Foods #125 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=16.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #125 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #1555 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #125 (76 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lowes Foods #125
Lowes Foods #125 (76 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #125 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores 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
2017 16.2 0.0 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Kernersville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 LAWNSIDE SHOPRITE, LLC 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0020-0021-04277 FAC-04277-FORT WORTH-TX 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-01505 FAC-01505-GILROY-CA 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bel Air 528-Sacramento 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CTC - CTN 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pro-Tops Inc 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Charlotte Region 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sammax Contracting, LLC 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Sturtevant/Lakeside Center (Wistu) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston (Canino) Hub (Txcan) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Floyd County Road Department 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuesday Morning Phoenix DC 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. TAFA Division 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mexico LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Brookhaven LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE PolyOne Corporation Kennesaw 76 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: 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.