Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #262

Cary, NC · ~108 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #262 runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Lowes Foods #262: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #262 safety composite

Lowes Foods #262 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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 #262 held a steady TCR band

Lowes Foods #262's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #72/1627
  • PHOTO FAREWAY STORES, INC.…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAREWAY STORES, INC. 034 IOWA CITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #262 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #262 averages 1.0 TCR (29% 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 #262 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #262 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #72 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #262 (108 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 #262
Lowes Foods #262 (108 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #262 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Cary

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 187 employers in Cary, 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 FAREWAY STORES, INC. 034 IOWA CITY 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 044 BETTENDORF 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 118 NEBRASKA CITY 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR McKay's Market Lakeside #14 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE County of Harnett-Public Utilities 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samet Corporation - Charlotte 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seretta Construction Mid-Atlantic, LLC 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carrier Commercial Services (Charlotte) 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary 3,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR WakeMed Cary Hospital 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR SERO-SOUTHEAST RESERVATIONS OFFICE 1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary - 305 Gregson Drive 883 FTE
NAT-TCR McKeon Products, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77BPC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KSBar and Grille 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RapidView, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE La Tapatia Tortilleria, Inc. 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parker Trutec 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gethsemane Garden Center LLC 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - STL 108 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. 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.