Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #278

Hickory, NC · ~86 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #278 runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #278: 3.1 TCR = 91% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #278 safety composite

Lowes Foods #278 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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 #278: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2024

Lowes Foods #278's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 6.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 91% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #878/1627
  • PHOTO MEXICO
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MEXICO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #278 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #278 averages 3.1 TCR (91% 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 #278 TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #278 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #878 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #278 (86 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 #278
Lowes Foods #278 (86 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #278 has fewer 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 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2021 4.1 2.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Hickory

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 MEXICO 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0032 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 212TRH 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0685 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE LiveGreen, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dreicor, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asphalt Plants 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reeves Metrolina Region 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR The Summit Academy 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tosca - Portage 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MA640 Boston WH 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Michigan Valley Irrigation II 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lippmann Milwaukee 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diversified Harvesting Comapany LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Livermore CA FXFE-LVM 86 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.