Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #162

Cary, NC · ~85 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #162 runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #162: 5.4 TCR = 160% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #162 safety composite

Lowes Foods #162 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−7.2

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #162 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #162's TCR fell 7.2 from 9.7 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 160% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #1399/1627
  • PHOTO Alfredo Linares Corp
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alfredo Linares Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #162 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #162 averages 5.4 TCR (160% 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 #162 TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #162 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #1399 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #162 (85 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 #162
Lowes Foods #162 (85 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #162 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
2024 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 9.7 9.7 4 0 0
2022 7.2 4.8 2 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.2 2.0 3 0 0
2019 4.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.9 2.2 4 0 0
2016 9.7 1.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Cary

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 187 employers in Cary, 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 Alfredo Linares Corp 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0413 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10720 Evergreen Park 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nijiya Market - TR 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aptus Group USA LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealand South 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE carl Rose Paving 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Romanoff Electric Residential - Charlotte 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary 3,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR WakeMed Cary Hospital 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR SERO-SOUTHEAST RESERVATIONS OFFICE 1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary - 305 Gregson Drive 883 FTE
NAT-TCR Environmental Specialists, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 239/ORD 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Technic Equipment Division 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IHG Army Hotels - Joint Base Lewis-McChord (Holiday Inn Express/Army Lodging) 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE C A Barrs 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owosso 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE INDC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parish Electric 85 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.