Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #144

Name: Lowes Foods #144 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Winston-Salem, NC · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lowes Foods #144 runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Lowes Foods #144: 13.8 TCR = 405% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #144 safety composite

Lowes Foods #144 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 13.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 #144: 7.2 → 20.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 20.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Lowes Foods #144's TCR rose 13.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 20.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Winston-Salem, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 405% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1602/1627
PHOTO LMMM San Antonio #4,…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LMMM San Antonio #4, LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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13.8
LMMM San Anton

13.8
EL AHORRO SUPE

13.8
Trader Joe's 0

13.8
Dash Markets #

13.8

What this shows Lowes Foods #144 averages 13.8 TCR (405% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Lowes Foods #144 TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=20.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #144 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1602 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #144 (51 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #144 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	20.4	0.0	2	0	0
2016	7.2	0.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Winston-Salem

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	LMMM San Antonio #4, LTD	SAN ANTONIO, TX	13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	EL AHORRO SUPERMARKET #9, LLC	VICTORIA, TX	13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Trader Joe's 0154 Corvallis	CORVALLIS, OR	13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dash Markets #226	BUFFALO, NY	13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hawksridge Farms, Inc	HICKORY	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Burlington Operations Center	BURLINGTON	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DRB Group North Carolina LLC - Charlotte Division	CHARLOTTE	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	All other sites Gastonia	GASTONIA	51 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center	Winston-Salem	4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Budd Group Janitorial	Winston-Salem	4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services	Winston-Salem	2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Reynolds Marketing Services Company	Winston-Salem	1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR	0315 - Dover, De	Dover, DE	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pacific Mutual Door Kansas City, LLC	Kansas City, MO	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Holland - RO	Rockford, IL	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	iFLY Tampa	Tampa, FL	13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Maysville LLC	Maysville, MO	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Nevada LLC	Nevada, MO	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Seymour Inc	Seymour, MO	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	84- Middletown	Middletown, CT	51 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.

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