Grocery stores · North Carolina
Lowes Foods #236
Mebane, NC · ~109 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 2.5
- Avg TCR
- 3.4
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Lowes Foods #236 runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.
Lowes Foods #236: 2.5 TCR = 73% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Lowes Foods #236 safety composite
Lowes Foods #236 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).
77/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- B 2.48 per 100 workers
Safer than 84% 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%).
TCR Δ
−0.5
2016→2024
Lowes Foods #236 injury rate improved
Lowes Foods #236's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
2016=2.1 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.5
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 445110 · Mebane, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID
Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 73% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #605/1627
- PHOTO Redner's Warehouse M…
- BOOK 9y book
- INJ 14 inj
- SIZE ~109 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Redner's Warehouse Market Pittston (0.0 TCR gap)
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Lowes Foods #236 in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Lowes Foods #236
2.5 TCR
- Redner's Wareh
Redner's Warehouse Market Pittston
2.5 TCR
- Lowes Foods #1
Lowes Foods #167
2.5 TCR
- NORTH CREEK
NORTH CREEK
2.5 TCR
- Giant Eagle #5
Giant Eagle #5107
2.5 TCR
What this shows Lowes Foods #236 averages 2.5 TCR (73% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).
Lowes Foods #236 TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.4
Where Lowes Foods #236 falls in its industry
30,654 Grocery stores establishmentsSafer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.
Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #605 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.
Lowes Foods #236 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 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.9 | 3.1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4.6 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
445110 · NC · Mebane
30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Mebane, 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 | Redner's Warehouse Market Pittston | 2.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Lowes Foods #167 | 2.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | NORTH CREEK | 2.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Giant Eagle #5107 | 2.5 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Primoris T&D Services - Charlotte | 109 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | City of Graham | 109 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Mid Atlantic Infrastructure Systems Inc | 109 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Gaines and company Inc | 109 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | GKN Alamance | 912 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | IS - MFG US - Mebane, NC | 642 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Industrial Solutions : IS - MFG US - Mebane, NC | 642 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Industrial Connections and Solutions LLC | 620 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | G.R. Sponaugle & Sons, Inc. | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Mount Vernon Printing Company, Inc. | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Senior Living at Forest Ridge | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | AEI | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Inteplast Engineered Films-Prattville | 109 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Prairie Lakes Health Campus | 109 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Cast Technologies | 109 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | LP Westmoreland, LLC | 109 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.