Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #166

Claremont, NC · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #166 runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #166: 5.0 TCR = 148% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #166 safety composite

Lowes Foods #166 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 #166: 0.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Lowes Foods #166's TCR rose 7.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1351/1627
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #235
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #235 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #166 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #166 averages 5.0 TCR (148% 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 #166 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=7.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #166 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #1351 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #166 (43 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 #166
Lowes Foods #166 (43 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #166 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
2019 7.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.0 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Claremont

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Claremont, 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 Lowes Foods #235 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1238 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10147 Fort Collins 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 035-00560 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEWIS NURSERY 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Little Man Farming INC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC Grow Out 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Bern Complex 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Claremont Plant 858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont 751 FTE
CITY-NEAR CommScope Claremont Facility 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Claremont 672 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Greenwood 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wm. Nobbe & Company 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1009 - BELFOR Orlando FL 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wytheville Service Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Akron Neighborhood Dev Corp 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Provence Wholesale LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 09AA 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mabel Canton School 43 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: 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.