Grocery stores · South Carolina

Lowes Foods #279

Hanahan, SC · ~99 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 #279 runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Lowes Foods #279: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #279 safety composite

Lowes Foods #279 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−8.5

2020→2024

Lowes Foods #279 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #279's TCR fell 8.5 from 10.2 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hanahan, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #290/789
  • PHOTO Jackson Food Rite
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson Food Rite (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #279 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #279 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 #279 TCR series: 2020=10.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #279 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 #290 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

Lowes Foods #279 (99 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 #279
Lowes Foods #279 (99 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 #279 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Hanahan

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 37 employers in Hanahan, 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 Jackson Food Rite 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Chestertown 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pomona CA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nature's Food Patch, Inc. Dunedin 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal Asphalt 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leigh Fibers LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greif (MG TAYLORS) 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE HTI @ Pendleton 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Boeing 527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtrust Holdings, Inc 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DSC4 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DSC4 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Kpr LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SC Johnson - Wilder 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shelves West 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Silvi Concrete of Chester County, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dermatology Specialists 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shaw Clearfield, LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLAAS of America 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merck West Point 99 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.