Grocery stores · South Carolina

Lowes Foods #259

Pawleys Island, SC · ~95 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 #259 runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #259: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #259 safety composite

Lowes Foods #259 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 #259 held a steady TCR band

Lowes Foods #259's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Pawleys Island, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #545/789
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 001
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 001 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #259 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #259 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 #259 TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #259 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 South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #545 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

Lowes Foods #259 (95 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 #259
Lowes Foods #259 (95 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 #259 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 7.4 5.5 4 0 0
2023 5.6 3.7 3 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 9.6 3.8 5 0 0
2018 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2017 5.6 1.9 3 0 0
2016 7.2 3.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Pawleys Island

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 15 employers in Pawleys Island, SC · 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 001 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 218 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middletown Karns Food Store 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GENE'S HEARTLAND FOODS 712 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ASIS 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Collar Pet Foods 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hills Pet Nutrition 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Archroma U.S. Inc. 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Lakes at Litchfield 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 1478 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02859 - STORE # 2859 PAWLEYS ISLAND 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1808-00030105-05741 69 FTE
NAT-TCR Garden Building - ManorView 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Medley 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Joe W. Morgan, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RDU 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #206 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Villages at Forest Springs 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE North & Clybourn #115 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biehle Electric, Inc. 95 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.