Retail Other · Alabama

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL

Athens, AL · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL: 5.4 TCR = 160% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL safety composite

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 #1158 ATHENS, AL: 0.0 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.91× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL's TCR rose 10.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Athens, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 160% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #24/30
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #216 …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #216 SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL averages 5.4 TCR (160% 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 #1158 ATHENS, AL TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=16.7 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 30 Retail Other employers in Alabama.

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL (19 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 #1158 ATHENS, AL
Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL (19 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL 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 10.4 10.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.2 8.2 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.2 8.2 1 0 0
2017 16.7 16.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · AL · Athens

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 57 employers in Athens, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #216 SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1164 SHELBYVILLE, IN 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Stores #4685 Longmont, CO 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5140 Mobile, AL 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Selma 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Selma Operations Center 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hughes Companies, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine City Contractors, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Athens 757 FTE
CITY-NEAR Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 661 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 661 382 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Stores #4685 Longmont, CO 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0182 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Concordia Nebraska * 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ascension At Home (INF) Warren 5.4 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.