Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #207

Holly Springs, NC · ~98 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #207 runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #207: 3.7 TCR = 108% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #207 safety composite

Lowes Foods #207 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−3.8

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #207 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #207's TCR fell 3.8 from 10.1 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Holly Springs, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 108% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #1057/1627
  • PHOTO Store #36
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #36 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #207 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #207 averages 3.7 TCR (108% 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 #207 TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #207 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #1057 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #207 (98 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 #207
Lowes Foods #207 (98 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #207 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 6.4 4.2 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 8.7 0.0 4 0 0
2018 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 10.1 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Holly Springs

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 29 employers in Holly Springs, 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 #36 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShopRite of Lodi 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Cumberland Grocery Outlet 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 124 ADEL 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEMC - Hillsborough 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSNC Corporate Warehouse 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hiller Concord 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seqirus, Inc. 865 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4458 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies - FDBN 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4458 301 FTE
NAT-TCR LALA Branded Products 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lundy Construction 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweep Across Texas 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TX100 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lee Precision, Inc. 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berlin Steel - CT Office 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ann Arbor Ceiling & Partition, LLC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. Pleasant 98 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.