Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #250

Wilkesboro, NC · ~88 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #250 runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #250: 4.8 TCR = 141% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #250 safety composite

Lowes Foods #250 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 #250 held a steady TCR band

Lowes Foods #250's TCR held near 0.0 from 6.7 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Wilkesboro, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 141% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #1309/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 020
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 020 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #250 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #250 averages 4.8 TCR (141% 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 #250 TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=2 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #250 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #1309 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #250 (88 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 #250
Lowes Foods #250 (88 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #250 has fewer 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 6.7 6.7 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2019 9.7 0.0 4 0 0
2018 11.9 2.4 5 0 0
2017 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.7 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Wilkesboro

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 43 employers in Wilkesboro, 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 020 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RPCS Inc. dba Country Mart # 71 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1072 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1269 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayliss Boatworks Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE BU 3434 - I-40_I-77 Statesville, NC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Young and McQueen Grading Company Inc 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant 2,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Food Service Plant 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1290 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1290 304 FTE
NAT-TCR BFD 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Schupan Aluminum & Plastic Sales Toledo 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pearce 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-MI-Grand Rapids 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Springs Healthcare Facility 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE CFO 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Maples at Waterford Crossing 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbridge Chattanooga Formed Plastics 88 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.