Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #230

Ocean Isle Beach, NC · ~105 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #230 runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #230: 6.0 TCR = 176% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #230 safety composite

Lowes Foods #230 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−2.9

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #230 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #230's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.3 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.3 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Ocean Isle Beach, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 176% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #1462/1627
  • PHOTO The White Market I
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The White Market I (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #230 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #230 averages 6.0 TCR (176% 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 #230 TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.3 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #230 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #1462 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #230 (105 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 #230
Lowes Foods #230 (105 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #230 has more employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher 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 1.7 2 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 3 0 0
2022 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.3 4.4 5 0 0
2019 4.9 0.0 3 0 0
2018 6.7 1.7 4 0 0
2017 12.8 2.8 8 1 0
2016 6.3 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Ocean Isle Beach

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Ocean Isle Beach, 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 White Market I 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10103 Roosevelt Square 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nijiya Market - SA 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10342 Merchants Walk 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE UFO-Utilities 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omega Construction, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtin Trucking and Drainage Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advance Concrete 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 1631 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTH BRUNSWICK_1438258 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Retro Environmental (NC) 22 FTE
NAT-TCR QSI New Holland Cook 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Wholesale Supply 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mediacom Ottumwa Iowa 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #31 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Country Interiors, Inc. 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care Center of Aberdeen 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Oaks 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE West River Health Campus 105 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, 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.