Supermarkets · North Carolina

Lowes Foods LLC #280

Huntersville, NC · ~99 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowes Foods LLC #280 runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowes Foods LLC #280: 6.3 TCR = 184% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowes Foods LLC #280 safety composite

Lowes Foods LLC #280 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−14.9

2022→2024

Lowes Foods LLC #280 injury rate improved

Lowes Foods LLC #280's TCR fell 14.9 from 14.9 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=14.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Huntersville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1482/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 008
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 008 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowes Foods LLC #280 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowes Foods LLC #280 averages 6.3 TCR (184% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Lowes Foods LLC #280 TCR series: 2022=14.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Lowes Foods LLC #280 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #1482 safest of 1627 Supermarkets employers in North Carolina.

Lowes Foods LLC #280 (99 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 LLC #280
Lowes Foods LLC #280 (99 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lowes Foods LLC #280 has more employees than the Supermarkets median and a higher 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.9 1.9 2 0 0
2022 14.9 10.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Huntersville

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 117 employers in Huntersville, 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 The Fresh Market 008 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 349 Main Street 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RPCS Inc. dba Price Cutter # 17 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 208 BYRON 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE R.D. Graham Electric LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Mechanical HVAC LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Elevator Company Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealing Agents Waterproofing Inc 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR McGuire Nuclear 1,045 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center 1,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huntersville Field Support Center 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metrolina Greenhouses - Huntersville NC 725 FTE
NAT-TCR Winsupply Tacoma WA Co. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Florence 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca Foods 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Salem Regional Medical Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Ridge Senior Housing, LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gant 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wonton Food (Tennessee) Inc. 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol Construction Services, Inc. 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. 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.