Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #260

Jacksonville, NC · ~97 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #260 runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #260: 5.2 TCR = 154% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #260 safety composite

Lowes Foods #260 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 #260: 4.5 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.86× in 2024

Lowes Foods #260's TCR rose 5.2 from 4.5 in 2016 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 154% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #1376/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 219
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 219 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #260 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #260 averages 5.2 TCR (154% 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 #260 TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #260 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #1376 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #260 (97 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 #260
Lowes Foods #260 (97 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #260 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 9.7 9.7 5 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.3 1.7 2 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2019 6.7 3.4 4 0 0
2018 8.3 1.7 5 0 0
2017 6.3 1.6 4 0 0
2016 4.5 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Jacksonville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Jacksonville, 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 219 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jons# 11 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Festival Foods Lexington 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Grocers 109 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greensboro Resource Center PNG 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Atlantic, LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unitherm Charlotte 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manganaro Southeast 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Onslow Memorial Hospital Main 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1298 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1298 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3864 330 FTE
NAT-TCR Walker Forge, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ver-Mac Industries, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - East Hampton 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin City Health Care 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ashford Place Health Campus 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE PakSafe Industries 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weck's Coors 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blair Ridge Health Campus 97 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.