Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #203

Oak Ridge, NC · ~112 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #203 runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #203: 3.8 TCR = 111% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #203 safety composite

Lowes Foods #203 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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 #203: 1.6 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Lowes Foods #203's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Oak Ridge, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #1088/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 007
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 007 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #203 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #203 averages 3.8 TCR (111% 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 #203 TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=5 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=7 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #203 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #1088 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #203 (112 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 #203
Lowes Foods #203 (112 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #203 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 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 7.0 0.0 4 0 0
2018 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2017 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2016 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Oak Ridge

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 6 employers in Oak Ridge, 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 007 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #187 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 206FSH 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midtown Grocery Outlet 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winston-Salem 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Environamics-Charlotte 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Sunrock Contracting 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Morrisville 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02146 - STORE # 2146 OAK RIDGE 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2146 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pinnacle Contracting Services, LLC 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Transport of Greensboro, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-TCR SONIFI Solutions, Inc. Los Angeles Office 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mack Hils, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald City Graphics 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Med Express - Bay City 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE LP Rogersville, LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE 90 Cafferty Road Operating Company, LP 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Cast Products 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE OREGON 112 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.