Retail Other · Virginia

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA

Lynchburg, VA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA: 4.7 TCR = 137% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA safety composite

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA: 0.0 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA's TCR rose 9.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Lynchburg, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 137% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #45/59
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1911…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1911 GLENDALE, AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA averages 4.7 TCR (137% of the Retail Other BLS benchmark).

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

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=9.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 59 Retail Other employers in Virginia.

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA (20 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA
Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA (20 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA has fewer employees than the Retail Other 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
2023 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · VA · Lynchburg

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 360 employers in Lynchburg, VA · 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 #1911 GLENDALE, AZ 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4574 Sonora, CA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4060 CUDAHY, CA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3491 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Richmond Hatchery 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richmond Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Gordonsville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordonsville 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynchburg General Hospital 2,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centra Urgent Care Forest 1,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Mayo Clinic Health System-Chippewa Valley 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Erlanger Distribution Center, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Choicewood 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Clinic Health System-Eau Claire Hospital (Whipple) 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1588 LANCASTER, SC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1226 FORT WAYNE, IN 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4677 Sparks, NV 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1245 DESOTO, TX 20 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. 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.