Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC

Hickory, NC · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade B.

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC: 2.6 TCR = 76% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 Store #0604 Hickory, NC: 0.0 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 4.39× in 2023

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC's TCR rose 11.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 4.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 76% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #48/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1545…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1545 FORT MYERS, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC averages 2.6 TCR (76% 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 Store #0604 Hickory, NC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=11.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC (18 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Store #0604 Hickory, NC
Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC (18 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #0604 Hickory, NC has fewer 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
2023 11.3 11.3 1 0 0
2022 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NC · Hickory

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1545 FORT MYERS, FL 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #481 WESTMINSTER, MD 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5109 Christianburg, VA 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1450 HOUSTON, TX 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacksboro 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bashas 034 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR May Nursery, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Indianapolis Terminal-DOT 2.6 TCR

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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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