Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods #66

Denton, NC · ~34 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods #66 runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Lowes Foods #66: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods #66 safety composite

Lowes Foods #66 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−0.4

2016→2024

Lowes Foods #66 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods #66's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.2 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.2 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #220/1627
  • PHOTO 2603-26030048 V48
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2603-26030048 V48 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods #66 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods #66 averages 1.3 TCR (39% 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 #66 TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods #66 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 96% 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 #220 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods #66 (34 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 #66
Lowes Foods #66 (34 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods #66 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 5.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Denton

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Denton, 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 2603-26030048 V48 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grocery Outlet of Poway 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAI-0035-0035-02635 FAC-02635-BRISTOW-VA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0017-0017-03187 FAC-03187-GLOBE-AZ 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jerry G. Williams & Sons, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2778 NC 50 South, Benson, NC 27504 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Natural Gas 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iredell Operations Center 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Construction Implements Depot 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR MOUNTAIN VISTA HEALTH PARK 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Products, LLC 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Industrial Performance Group 34 FTE
NAT-TCR IBC Materials & Technologies Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Battle Creek SC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio-West Virginia Excavating 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastipak- Atlanta 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alamo Food Rite 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Manufacturing Corporation 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Mall 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exit 34A LLC dba Quality Inn Gulfport 34 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, 2016. 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.