Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #222

Name: Lowes Foods #222 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Mount Airy, NC · ~91 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.6
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lowes Foods #222 runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Lowes Foods #222: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #222 safety composite

Lowes Foods #222 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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%).

Lowes Foods #222 held a steady TCR band

Lowes Foods #222's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #293/1627
PHOTO Giant Eagle #6378
BOOK 9y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giant Eagle #6378 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Lowes Foods #222 averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Lowes Foods #222 TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=2 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #222 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #293 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #222 (91 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #222 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
2024	2.1	0.0	1
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	1.8	0.0	1
2019	2.3	0.0	1
2018	4.3	2.2	2
2017	2.0	0.0	1
2016	1.9	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Mount Airy

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Mount Airy, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Giant Eagle #6378	N. CANTON, OH	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Giant Eagle #6504	COLUMBUS, OH	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Carlie C's IGA #845	HOPE MILL, NC	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	La Plaza Market, LLC Tracy	TRACY, CA	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tri-hishtil, Llc	MILLS RIVER	91 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brother Construction LLC	CHARLOTTE	91 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Triple-R Electric, Inc.	KINSTON	91 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TRS Sesco	KERNERSVILLE	91 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pike Florida Statewide Operations	Mount Airy	1,583 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pike North Carolina Statewide Operations	Mount Airy	1,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pike Georgia Statewide Operations	Mount Airy	969 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pike Texas Statewide Operations	Mount Airy	738 FTE
NAT-TCR	The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Golf Club	Orlando, FL	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Downers Grove	Downers Grove, IL	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	B&E Electrical, Inc.	Summerville, SC	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Philabundance	Philadelphia, PA	1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Us - Fs	Jeannette, PA	91 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Weck's Cottonwood	Albuquerque, NM	91 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wellbrooke of Crawfordsville	Crawfordsville, IN	91 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aspen Place Health Campus	Greensburg, IN	91 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.