Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #190

Cary, NC · ~84 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #190 runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Lowes Foods #190: 7.0 TCR = 204% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #190 safety composite

Lowes Foods #190 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−11.3

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #190 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #190's TCR fell 11.3 from 11.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 18.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.3 · 2017=18.9 · 2018=9.0 · 2019=15.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Cary, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 204% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1517/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 068
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 068 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #190 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #190 averages 7.0 TCR (204% 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 #190 TCR series: 2016=11.3 · 2017=18.9 · 2018=9 · 2019=15.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #190 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #1517 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #190 (84 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 #190
Lowes Foods #190 (84 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #190 has fewer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.7 0.0 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 15.5 2.2 7 0 0
2018 9.0 0.0 4 0 0
2017 18.9 2.1 9 0 0
2016 11.3 1.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Cary

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 187 employers in Cary, 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 The Fresh Market 068 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0050 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10441 Malibu 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10677 Concord 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lark Maintenance Facility 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. Corporate Office 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Cooke Construction, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Charlotte 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary 3,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR WakeMed Cary Hospital 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR SERO-SOUTHEAST RESERVATIONS OFFICE 1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary - 305 Gregson Drive 883 FTE
NAT-TCR Plastic Recycling Technology II, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondelez Carlisle 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LP Louisville Farnsley Road, LLC- Summerfield 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida LEC, Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Livonia 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berlin Steel - PA Office 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellbrooke of Westfield 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethlehem, PA 84 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.