Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #274

Name: Lowes Foods #274 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Pittsboro, NC · ~126 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lowes Foods #274 runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods #274: 6.3 TCR = 186% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #274 safety composite

Lowes Foods #274 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−9.8

2023→2024

Lowes Foods #274 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #274's TCR fell 9.8 from 11.2 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=11.2 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Pittsboro, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 186% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #1488/1627
PHOTO KJ's Market #605
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KJ's Market #605 (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.3
KJ's Market #6

6.3
Store 0590

6.3
10495 Park Rid

6.3
10445 Superior

6.3

What this shows Lowes Foods #274 averages 6.3 TCR (186% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Lowes Foods #274 TCR series: 2023=11.2 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #274 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1488 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #274 (126 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #274 has more 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	1.4	1.4	1	0	0
2023	11.2	7.5	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Pittsboro

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 13 employers in Pittsboro, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	KJ's Market #605	GREENWOOD, SC	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 0590	MIAMI, FL	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	10495 Park Ridge	PARK RIDGE, IL	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	10445 Superior	SUPERIOR, CO	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Airtron Charlotte	CHARLOTTE	126 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3870_7378	RALEIGH	126 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Plant 11	SALISBURY	126 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Veneer Tech	NEWPORT	126 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fitch Creations, Inc.	Pittsboro	181 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Laurels of Chatham	Pittsboro	148 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2448 LOWE S OF PITTSBORO NC	Pittsboro	140 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2807-2448	Pittsboro	138 FTE
NAT-TCR	Advantage Service Company	North Little Rock, AR	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tnmas - Nashville Hub	Nashville, TN	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Quality Tool & Stamping Inc. Co.	Muskegon Heights, MI	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tampa Bay Downs, Inc	Tampa, FL	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Blosser Ranch	Santa Maria, CA	126 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alsum Farms & Produce Inc.	Cambria, WI	126 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Western Builders of Amarillo, Inc	Amarillo, TX	126 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nmlas - Las Cruces	Las Cruces, NM	126 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.