Grocery stores · South Carolina

Lowes Foods #223

Little River, SC · ~115 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #223 runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #223: 4.1 TCR = 120% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #223 safety composite

Lowes Foods #223 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−4.5

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #223 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #223's TCR fell 4.5 from 5.9 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Little River, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 120% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #463/789
  • PHOTO Rouses Market #47
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rouses Market #47 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #223 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #223 averages 4.1 TCR (120% 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 #223 TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=4 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #223 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #463 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

Lowes Foods #223 (115 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 #223
Lowes Foods #223 (115 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #223 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2022 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.0 0.0 3 0 0
2020 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.6 0.0 3 0 0
2018 7.8 0.0 4 1 0
2017 7.7 1.5 5 0 0
2016 5.9 4.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Little River

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 19 employers in Little River, SC · 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 Rouses Market #47 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 589 DECORAH 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0582 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0618 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.B. Guimarin & Co Inc. 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Georgetown Container 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4176 Greer Sheet Plant 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCLEOD-SEACOAST MEDICAL CTR 1,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLeod Health Seacoast 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tidelands Health Rehabilitation Hospital at Little River 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR A.O. Hardee and Son, Inc. 179 FTE
NAT-TCR Ramsey 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Redondo Manufacturing 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ORL 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR South Florida Foods Internatinal Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michael F. Ronca & Sons, Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broad Acres Nursing Home 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoemakersville plant 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Joist West 115 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.