Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #181

Cape Carteret, NC · ~139 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #181 runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #181: 5.4 TCR = 159% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #181 safety composite

Lowes Foods #181 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−5.9

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #181 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #181's TCR fell 5.9 from 9.4 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.4 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Cape Carteret, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 159% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #1397/1627
  • PHOTO Redner's Warehouse M…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Redner's Warehouse Market Palmyra (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #181 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #181 averages 5.4 TCR (159% 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 #181 TCR series: 2016=9.4 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=6 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #181 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #1397 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #181 (139 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 #181
Lowes Foods #181 (139 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #181 has more 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
2024 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2023 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2022 4.5 3.4 4 0 0
2021 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.2 1.1 4 0 0
2019 6.0 0.0 5 0 0
2018 9.5 0.0 8 0 0
2017 7.1 2.4 6 0 0
2016 9.4 0.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Cape Carteret

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Cape Carteret, 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 Redner's Warehouse Market Palmyra 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jumbo IV LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10615 Queen 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faribault - Main Store 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bullington Construction, Inc. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Walls Inc-Greensboro 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Corp Ofc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Specialty Yarn Group, Inc. Valdese 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2436 LOWE S OF CAPE CARTERET NC 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-2436 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Harvestland Constructors, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #10 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Palmyra 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 17601765 Lkq 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SOSF-Lancaster 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rocky Brands Distribution Center 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE KKS 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brandon Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 139 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.