Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #239

Wake Forest, NC · ~113 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #239 runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #239: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #239 safety composite

Lowes Foods #239 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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 #239: 3.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Lowes Foods #239's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.1 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Wake Forest, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #1301/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 015
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 015 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #239 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #239 averages 4.7 TCR (139% 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 #239 TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #239 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #1301 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #239 (113 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 #239
Lowes Foods #239 (113 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #239 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 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2020 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 10.9 0.0 6 0 0
2018 7.3 1.8 4 0 0
2017 7.3 0.0 4 0 0
2016 3.1 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Wake Forest

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 67 employers in Wake Forest, 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 Fresh Market 015 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Airport Road 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10201 Charleston 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10171 South Loop 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pike Louisiana Statewide Operations 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE :ightserve Corporation 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airo Mechanical 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE FESS Fire Protection 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Environmental Consultants, LLC 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5254 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Wake Forest 145 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5254 326 FTE
NAT-TCR Penn Enterprises Inc KS 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WellStar North Fulton Hospital 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Barro's Pizza, Grayhawk 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pyrotek Cortland 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE NEW Cooperative Inc. - Fort Dodge 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hassell and Hughes Lumber Company Inc 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lynwood 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avalon Springs 113 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.