Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #224

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

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #224 runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #224: 4.0 TCR = 118% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #224 safety composite

Lowes Foods #224 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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 #224: 2.8 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Lowes Foods #224's TCR rose 3.0 from 2.8 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 118% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #1139/1627
  • PHOTO Store #100
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #100 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #224 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #224 averages 4.0 TCR (118% 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 #224 TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=2 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #224 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #1139 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #224 (98 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 #224
Lowes Foods #224 (98 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #224 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 5.9 3.9 3 0 0
2023 5.8 3.9 3 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 3.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 1 1 0
2018 4.9 0.0 3 0 0
2017 5.7 1.4 4 0 0
2016 2.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Raleigh

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, 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 #100 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jons# 18 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2321 MARTINS SUPERMARKET- MI location 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0624 4.0 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 Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Rueters Elkhart 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MH Davenport 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cibolo 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gary Scrap Yard 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lee Precision, Inc. 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berlin Steel - CT Office 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. Pleasant 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ann Arbor Ceiling & Partition, LLC 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.