Grocery stores · South Carolina

Lowes Foods #276

Columbia, SC · ~134 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #276 runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #276: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #276 safety composite

Lowes Foods #276 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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 #276: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2024

Lowes Foods #276's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #286/789
  • PHOTO Price Rite Store 210…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Price Rite Store 210 Henrietta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #276 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #276 averages 3.0 TCR (89% 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 #276 TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #276 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #286 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

Lowes Foods #276 (134 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 #276
Lowes Foods #276 (134 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #276 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 5.7 4.3 4 0 0
2022 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Columbia

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, 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 Price Rite Store 210 Henrietta 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop Rite Of Livingston 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShopRite of Palisades Park 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 974 CEDAR FALLS 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2548 LOWE S OF E. SPARTANBURG SC 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2520 LOWE S OF NEWBERRY SC 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1812 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0883 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Matanuska Telecom Association, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet Refining Burnham Terminal 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Burleson Construction Company Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 974 Cedar Falls 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madden Contracting 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pelletier Construction Inc. 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Filters Inc 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Directpro Logistics, LLC 134 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. 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.