Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #186

Wilmington, NC · ~75 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #186 runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Lowes Foods #186: 2.7 TCR = 78% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #186 safety composite

Lowes Foods #186 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #186 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #186's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #694/1627
  • PHOTO FoodTown #204
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FoodTown #204 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #186 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #186 averages 2.7 TCR (78% 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 #186 TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=5 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #186 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #694 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #186 (75 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 #186
Lowes Foods #186 (75 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #186 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 5.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 7.5 2.5 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Wilmington

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 360 employers in Wilmington, 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 FoodTown #204 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #5839 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leevers Foods Cavalier 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2323 MARTINS SUPERMARKET- MI location 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE FARM 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGRICULTURAL-FARMING 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Systems 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh South 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center 6,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover Regional Medical Center 4,768 FTE
CITY-NEAR GE Hitachi Nuclear Americas 1,975 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover County Government 1,974 FTE
NAT-TCR Aurora Cooperative - Service Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cal-Maine Foods Inc. Conventional 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain - Camden, SC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Caldwell Terminal 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Combustion Services & Equipment Company 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAH Machine Co., Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ver-Mac Industries, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPA (Infinity LTL Engineering Compounds) 75 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.