Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #243

Greensboro, NC · ~92 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #243 runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Lowes Foods #243: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #243 safety composite

Lowes Foods #243 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Lowes Foods #243 held a steady TCR band

Lowes Foods #243's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.3 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Greensboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #485/1627
  • PHOTO Corporate
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #243 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #243 averages 2.2 TCR (65% 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 #243 TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=2 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #243 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #485 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #243 (92 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 #243
Lowes Foods #243 (92 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #243 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.5 2.5 3 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Greensboro

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 920 employers in Greensboro, 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 Corporate 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #4056 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR D'Agostino #825 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0369 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aqua North Carolina, Inc. - Cary 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Balfour Beatty - Havelock Bypass 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conover 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eldeco Inc Charlotte 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHCMH-Cone-Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital 3,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government 3,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCGRE - GREENSBORO HUB 2,447 FTE
NAT-TCR Schaumburg Toyota Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR J&J Sass Electric, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Transport Service 60022 Midwest 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Longview 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Stockton Healthcare Facility 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Peterson Sons, Inc. 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Charles Health Campus 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scenic Hills at the Monastery 92 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.