Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #158

Banner Elk, NC · ~95 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #158 runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #158: 2.9 TCR = 85% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #158 safety composite

Lowes Foods #158 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−0.4

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #158 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #158's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.6 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Banner Elk, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 85% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #794/1627
  • PHOTO Redner's Warehouse M…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Redner's Warehouse Market West Dover (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #158 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #158 averages 2.9 TCR (85% 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 #158 TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #158 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #794 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #158 (95 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 #158
Lowes Foods #158 (95 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #158 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower 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 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2023 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.1 1.5 2 0 0
2019 7.8 2.0 4 0 0
2018 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Banner Elk

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 12 employers in Banner Elk, 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 Redner's Warehouse Market West Dover 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPENCERPORT 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0068 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0082 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Circle S Ranch NC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh North Transmission and Distribution Operations Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE MB Haynes Corporation (Office) 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Conduit Systems, Inc 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1834 LOWE S OF BANNER ELK NC 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-1834 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consolidated Resources 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Care Center of Banner Elk 90 FTE
NAT-TCR Sherman Mechanical, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Pressed Metals 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market West Dover 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bodensteiner Implement Company New Hampton Location 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Contracting and Specialties LLC - Boston 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monte Vista Hills Healthcare 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHA 95 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.