Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #171

Lewisville, NC · ~103 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #171 runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Lowes Foods #171: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #171 safety composite

Lowes Foods #171 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 #171: 1.9 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.43× in 2024

Lowes Foods #171's TCR rose 3.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lewisville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #569/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 094
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 094 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #171 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #171 averages 2.4 TCR (71% 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 #171 TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=2 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #171 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #569 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #171 (103 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 #171
Lowes Foods #171 (103 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #171 has more 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 5.8 5.8 3 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2021 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Lewisville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 6 employers in Lewisville, 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 The Fresh Market 094 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlisle Karns Food Store 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apples (Meister Rd) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0075 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 103731 - Enviva Hamlet Plant 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Contracting 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Synergy Installation Solutions 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaplan Early Learning Company 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01062 - STORE # 1062 LEWISVILLE 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1062 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR 364432-LEWISVILLE PO 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill Middleburg Heights Office & Store 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeport Store 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rick Case Volkswagen 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Teijin Automotive Technologies, Van Wert, Ohio 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE PCS Naperville 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cockeysville Service Center 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Rebar Austin 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE MKG Norton Shores SC 103 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.