Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC

Durham, NC · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC: 7.4 TCR = 217% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 #1280 DURHAM, NC: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 22.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 22.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Durham, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 217% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #104/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4194…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4194 HUMBLE, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC averages 7.4 TCR (217% 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 #1280 DURHAM, NC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=22.9 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #104 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC (22 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 #1280 DURHAM, NC
Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC (22 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1280 DURHAM, NC 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 10.7 10.7 1 0 0
2022 9.8 9.8 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 22.9 22.9 2 1 0
2017 7.9 7.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NC · Durham

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 #4194 HUMBLE, TX 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3544 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 236 Dedham MA 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses Express 1842 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE A Plus Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Ridge Farms Partnership 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanguard Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE LNM - 105 -EST 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Nokomis RHCC 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tole Electric Incorporated 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Lake View 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GC Foods 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1948 San Antonio, TX 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5367 Anderson, SC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4446 UKIAH, CA 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1468 APOPKA, FL 22 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, 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.