Grocery stores · South Carolina

Lowes Foods #267

Lexington, SC · ~119 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #267 runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #267: 4.3 TCR = 127% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #267 safety composite

Lowes Foods #267 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−11.0

2017→2024

Lowes Foods #267 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #267's TCR fell 11.0 from 12.6 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.6 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lexington, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #495/789
  • PHOTO Nil9Ventures, Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nil9Ventures, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #267 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #267 averages 4.3 TCR (127% 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 #267 TCR series: 2017=12.6 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #267 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #495 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

Lowes Foods #267 (119 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 #267
Lowes Foods #267 (119 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #267 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.2 0.0 3 0 0
2019 6.1 3.1 4 0 0
2018 7.2 1.4 5 0 0
2017 12.6 2.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Lexington

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, 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 Nil9Ventures, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0070 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop Rite of Absecon 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1390 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Santee Electric Cooperative, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed Air Corp Seneca 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Distribution Inc. - Rock Hill, SC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE PPA Industries, Inc 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Lexington 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin US5 Lexington SC 1,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin North America US7 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Peerless Saw Company 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Manno Electric, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kruck Plumbing and Heating Co, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bete Fog Nozzle, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reed City Group, LLC 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Occupational Training Center 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reilley Trucking Inc. 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geotech Environmental Equipment Home Office 119 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.