Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #266

Kernersville, NC · ~130 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #266 runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Lowes Foods #266: 1.8 TCR = 52% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #266 safety composite

Lowes Foods #266 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.5 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

−1.1

2017→2024

Lowes Foods #266 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #266's TCR fell 1.1 from 4.1 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #330/1627
  • PHOTO South San Jose Groce…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South San Jose Grocery Outlet (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #266 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #266 averages 1.8 TCR (52% 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 #266 TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #266 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #330 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #266 (130 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 #266
Lowes Foods #266 (130 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #266 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 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.7 1.4 4 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Kernersville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 South San Jose Grocery Outlet 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gristedes #512 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1554 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1585 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Starr Electric Company, Inc Raleigh 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bonitz Flooring and Contracting Charlotte 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries, LP Oral Finished Products 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC Johnson Professional - Corporate office and sales 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Beverage Company, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ancira Motor Company 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DURAND 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Optimist Palmdale 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Team Electric Inc. 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ben & Jerry's Burlington HQ 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Du-Co Ceramics Company 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millersville Office 130 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. 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.