Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #178

Name: Lowes Foods #178 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lumberton, NC · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lowes Foods #178 runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Lowes Foods #178: 7.7 TCR = 227% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #178 safety composite

Lowes Foods #178 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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 #178: 7.2 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Lowes Foods #178's TCR rose 1.3 from 7.2 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 227% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1547/1627
PHOTO Malicki's Piggly Wig…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Malicki's Piggly Wiggly 342 (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.7
Malicki's Pigg

7.7
NAI-0034-0034-

7.7
ABS-0029-0028-

7.7
SWY-0029-0029-

7.7

What this shows Lowes Foods #178 averages 7.7 TCR (227% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Lowes Foods #178 TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=8.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #178 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1547 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #178 (47 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #178 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	Injuries
2018	8.5	2
2017	7.5	2
2016	7.2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Lumberton

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 80 employers in Lumberton, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Malicki's Piggly Wiggly 342	OAK CREEK, WI	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NAI-0034-0034-03798 FAC-03798-BROOMALL-PA	BROOMALL, PA	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ABS-0029-0028-04786 FAC-04786-FALLBROOK-CA	FALLBROOK, CA	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SWY-0029-0029-02103 FAC-02103-ANAHEIM-CA	ANAHEIM, CA	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Monroe NC Operations	MARSHVILLE	47 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dan River Steam Station	EDEN	47 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hickory Resource Center PNG	HICKORY	47 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Smith Douglas Charlotte	MIDLAND	47 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UNC HEALTH SOUTHEASTERN	Lumberton	1,792 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1155	Lumberton	386 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1155	Lumberton	385 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Quickie Manufacturing	Lumberton	307 FTE
NAT-TCR	St Charles Health System Redmond	Redmond, OR	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Taylor Farms Artesian	Chicago, IL	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bareville Flooring and Tile	Leola, PA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Senior Care of Jacksonville	Jacksonville, TX	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	La Mer Beachfront Inn	Cape May, NJ	47 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hilton Garden Inn Anchorage	Anchorage, AK	47 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Malloy Electric-Dakota Dunes	Dakota Dunes, SD	47 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Sarah Roberts French Home, Inc.	San Antonio, TX	47 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.