Grocery stores · North Carolina

Lowes Foods Corporate Office

Winston-Salem, NC · ~253 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods Corporate Office runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Lowes Foods Corporate Office: 1.9 TCR = 54% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods Corporate Office safety composite

Lowes Foods Corporate Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−0.6

2016→2023

Lowes Foods Corporate Office injury rate improved

Lowes Foods Corporate Office's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.9 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.9 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Winston-Salem, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #349/1627
  • PHOTO FoodTown #017
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~253 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FoodTown #017 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods Corporate Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods Corporate Office averages 1.9 TCR (54% 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 Corporate Office TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods Corporate Office falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #349 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods Corporate Office (253 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 050100150200250300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lowes Foods Corporate Office
Lowes Foods Corporate Office (253 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods Corporate Office 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
2023 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2021 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.9 1.9 3 0 0
2018 4.2 4.2 5 0 0
2017 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Winston-Salem

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, 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 FoodTown #017 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlie C's IGA #730 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 118 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1465 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flowers Baking Company of Jamestown LLC 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2749 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0645 - RALEIGH NC WHSE 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE FC: Charlotte 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center 4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Budd Group Janitorial 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services 2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Marketing Services Company 1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR S.A. Morman & Co. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shambaugh & Son LP 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pawtucket, RI 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JR Peters, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #51 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #10 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE ExxonMobil Chemical, Beaumont Polyethylene Plant 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE 801 - Tipp City Perishables 253 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.