Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #245

Hickory, NC · ~144 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #245 runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #245: 3.1 TCR = 91% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #245 safety composite

Lowes Foods #245 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−2.0

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #245 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #245's TCR fell 2.0 from 6.3 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #871/1627
  • PHOTO Redner's Warehouse M…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Redner's Warehouse Market Sinking Spring (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #245 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #245 averages 3.1 TCR (91% 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 #245 TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=6 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #245 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #871 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #245 (144 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 #245
Lowes Foods #245 (144 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #245 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 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2023 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.0 0.0 4 0 0
2018 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.4 0.0 4 0 0
2016 6.3 1.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Hickory

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 Sinking Spring 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GATES 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1243 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0035 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duke Energy HYCO 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contempora Fabrics Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4320 Winston Salem Container 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincotek Surface Solutions 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Turn-All Machine & Gear Company 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DiaCom Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Towlift Toledo 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Central District 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Osage 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAC Waste Trailer, Inc 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #4098 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #6348 144 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.