All Other General Merchandise Stores · Illinois

5276

Palatine, IL · ~208 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5276 runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical All Other General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

5276: 4.8 TCR = 140% of All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5276 safety composite

5276 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

5276 held a steady TCR band

5276's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Palatine, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 140% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #44/61
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4118…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4118 INGLEWOOD, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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5276 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5276 averages 4.8 TCR (140% of the All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

5276 TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 5276 falls in its industry

2,120 All Other General Merchandise establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 61 All Other General Merchandise employers in Illinois.

5276 (208 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5276
5276 (208 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

5276 has more employees than the All Other General Merchandise Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2022 7.4 2.7 11 0 0
2021 5.5 0.7 8 0 0
2020 3.4 2.0 5 0 0
2019 3.4 2.7 4 1 0
2018 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2016 7.2 3.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · IL · Palatine

2,120 All Other General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Palatine, IL · 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 Big Lots Store #4118 INGLEWOOD, CA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 231 Dennisport MA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4238 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5155 Columbia, MD 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Helitech 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Pallet Services, LLC 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE SABIC Innovative Plastics US LLC 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huntley TEQ - F315 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Consolidated School District 15 1,957 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILPAL - PALATINE 1,701 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALATINE (ILPAL) 1,639 FTE
CITY-NEAR William Rainey Harper College 1,553 FTE
NAT-TCR Wegmans Fairport 004 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Marian University Facilities 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hytrol Conveyor Company 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Florida 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benchmark Human Services - St Louis 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0453 - Fairfield Ca Whse 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1222 - Grand Chute Wi Whse 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0353 - Southeast Memphis Tn Whse 208 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.