Retail Other · Ohio

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01

Columbus, OH · ~906 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 safety composite

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 held a steady TCR band

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.4 in 2018 to 0.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.4 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #1/121
  • PHOTO Boyds LP
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~906 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boyds LP (0.2 TCR gap)

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Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 averages 0.2 TCR (6% 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 HQ Main Building - HQ01 TCR series: 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 121 Retail Other employers in Ohio.

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 (906 employees, TCR 0.2) 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01
Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 (906 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 has more employees than the Retail Other median and a lower 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
2020 0.1 0.1 1 0 0
2019 0.1 0.1 1 0 0
2018 0.4 0.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · OH · Columbus

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Boyds LP 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4224 CUTLER RIDGE, FL 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 478 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5222 Jersey City, NJ 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 7012 904 FTE
STATE-SIZE Euclid Hospital 909 FTE
STATE-SIZE Victoria's Secret Direct Call Center 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE CINCINNATI (OHCGE) 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Geico Indy 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AbbVie Stemcentrx LLC 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanover-Global Plastics- Injection Moldi - F126 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1001 - Zachry Home Office 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Processing plant 906 FTE
NAT-SIZE WIPP 906 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-ILCS 906 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scs 1860 Outer Loop - 3756 (Kyvle) 906 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.