Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #179

Greensboro, NC · ~130 workers · 9 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 #179 runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #179: 3.6 TCR = 107% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #179 safety composite

Lowes Foods #179 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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 #179: 5.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

Lowes Foods #179's TCR rose 2.9 from 5.0 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Greensboro, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 107% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #1053/1627
  • PHOTO Gristedes #533
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gristedes #533 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #179 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #179 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 #179 TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=3 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #179 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 #1053 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #179 (130 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 #179
Lowes Foods #179 (130 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 #179 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 7.8 4.7 5 0 0
2023 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2022 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.7 1.5 5 0 0
2018 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 5.0 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Greensboro

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 920 employers in Greensboro, 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 Gristedes #533 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0059 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0372 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0617 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Starr Electric Company, Inc Raleigh 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bonitz Flooring and Contracting Charlotte 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries, LP Oral Finished Products 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC Johnson Professional - Corporate office and sales 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHCMH-Cone-Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital 3,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government 3,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCGRE - GREENSBORO HUB 2,447 FTE
NAT-TCR Rexair LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR XTH 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MOSPR 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake City RPC 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Foods Corporate Office 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Rebar Houston West 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE 52nd Paint East 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Strip, Inc. Perrysburg 130 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.