Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #189

Knightdale, NC · ~152 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 #189 runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #189: 3.6 TCR = 106% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #189 safety composite

Lowes Foods #189 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−2.2

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #189 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #189's TCR fell 2.2 from 6.3 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 106% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #1043/1627
  • PHOTO Store #10
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #10 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #189 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #189 averages 3.6 TCR (106% 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 #189 TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #189 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #1043 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #189 (152 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 #189
Lowes Foods #189 (152 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 #189 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 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2022 3.8 2.5 3 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.2 0.0 4 0 0
2018 1.3 0.0 0 1 0
2017 5.5 0.0 4 0 0
2016 6.3 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Knightdale

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 35 employers in Knightdale, 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 Store #10 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0060 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0086 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2603-26030014 V14 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Deriva Energy, LLC (Caldwell) 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Charlotte North 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essentra HPC Charlotte 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bemis Manufacturing Southeast 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schneider Electric Knightdale 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCX Holding, LLC, wholly owned subsid of Hubbell Industrial Controls, Knightdale, NC 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2111 - Knightdale 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1816 173 FTE
NAT-TCR Air Design Systems, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR W L Fuller Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 44-Sedalia 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #0060 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grand River Construction 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyde Park 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE PotlatchDeltic Land & Lumber, LLC. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carington Park 152 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.