Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #182

Name: Lowes Foods #182 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Walkertown, NC · ~83 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lowes Foods #182 runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Lowes Foods #182: 2.5 TCR = 73% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #182 safety composite

Lowes Foods #182 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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 #182: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Lowes Foods #182's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Walkertown, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 73% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #609/1627
PHOTO Giant Eagle #5863
BOOK 9y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giant Eagle #5863 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.5
Giant Eagle #5

2.5
309WTV

2.5
CORNER MARKET

2.5
Store 0417

2.5

What this shows Lowes Foods #182 averages 2.5 TCR (73% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Lowes Foods #182 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #182 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #609 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #182 (83 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #182 has fewer 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
2024	2.1	2.1	1
2023	2.0	2.0	1
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	5.2	0.0	2
2018	10.6	2.6	4
2017	2.6	0.0	1
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Walkertown

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Walkertown, 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	Giant Eagle #5863	STREETSBORO, OH	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	309WTV	WESTERVILLE, OH	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CORNER MARKET #6013	JACKSON, MS	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 0417	BRADENTON, FL	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ROCKWELL FARMS INC	ROCKWELL	83 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gastonia Operations Center	GASTONIA	83 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D.R. Horton, Inc. - Greensboro	HIGH POINT	83 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Raleigh-Durham Call Center	RALEIGH	83 FTE
CITY-NEAR	02674 - STORE # 2674 WALKERTOWN	Walkertown	83 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2674	Walkertown	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Winston Salem Terminal	Walkertown	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Roses 409	Walkertown	28 FTE
NAT-TCR	Stauffer Diesel	Ephrata, PA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cresline Plastic Pipe Company, Inc.	Henderson, KY	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sd02-Dakt-South Dakota Sioux Falls	Sioux Falls, SD	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	1325 Lkq	Leominster, MA	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Chief Carriers	Grand Island, NE	83 FTE
NAT-SIZE	VDF Mackin	Momence, IL	83 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Starcon @ Ingredion Bedford Park	Bedford Park, IL	83 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Decatur - 02	Decatur, AL	83 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.

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