Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #164

Yadkinville, NC · ~49 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #164 runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #164: 3.6 TCR = 107% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #164 safety composite

Lowes Foods #164 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2016→2023

Lowes Foods #164 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #164's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1049/1627
  • PHOTO Store #19
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #19 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #164 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #164 averages 3.6 TCR (107% 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 #164 TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #164 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #1049 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #164 (49 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 #164
Lowes Foods #164 (49 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #164 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2019 9.1 0.0 2 0 0
2018 8.6 4.3 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Yadkinville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 25 employers in Yadkinville, 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 Store #19 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store #53 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Saver Foods #5 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 395 WEBSTER CITY 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zackly Rite Farms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Raleigh 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 3 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matthews Operations Center 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR T5 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Yadkin 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR B & G Foods Yadkinville, Inc 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR POY 239 FTE
NAT-TCR PMG Pilgrim Manor 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Sangerfield NY 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Fairfield 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lions VisionGift 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE SSA Pacific - Everett 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diversified Technologies International 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE MJM Grand Inc 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silicon Valley Drywall, Inc. 49 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: 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.