Grocery stores · South Carolina

Lowes Foods #270

Summerville, SC · ~122 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #270 runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #270: 4.2 TCR = 124% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #270 safety composite

Lowes Foods #270 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 #270: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.9× in 2024

Lowes Foods #270's TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 124% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #476/789
  • PHOTO Murphy's Markets Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Murphy's Markets Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #270 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #270 averages 4.2 TCR (124% 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 #270 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=3 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #270 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #476 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

Lowes Foods #270 (122 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 #270
Lowes Foods #270 (122 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #270 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 8.0 8.0 5 0 0
2023 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.7 0.0 2 0 0
2019 8.7 2.9 6 0 0
2018 8.1 3.5 7 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Summerville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 188 employers in Summerville, 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 Murphy's Markets Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1093 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rouses Market #79 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grocery Outlet of Madera 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SOPAKCO - Processing 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spirax Sarco, Inc. - Northpoint 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bentley Acquisition LLC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Gobain Abrasives Travelers Rest SC 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thorne research - Omni one 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scout Boats, Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summerville Medical Center 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1037 420 FTE
NAT-TCR NP Magic Star LLC, dba Wildfire Casino (Wildfire Boulder) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HVAC, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR St Croix Castings, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden State Bridge Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kearsley Operator LP 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fick & Sons, Inc 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1894 LKQ Newnan (GPS) 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwest Nursery and Supply, LLC 122 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.