Retail Other · Ohio

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH

Newark, OH · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH: 6.6 TCR = 193% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH safety composite

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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 Store #1449 NEWARK, OH held a steady TCR band

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=16.9 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=18.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Newark, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 193% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #105/121
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4546…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4546 Port Hueneme, C (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH averages 6.6 TCR (193% 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 #1449 NEWARK, OH TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=16.9 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=18.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #105 safest of 121 Retail Other employers in Ohio.

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH (18 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 #1449 NEWARK, OH
Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH (18 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1449 NEWARK, OH 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 18.1 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 16.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 8.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · OH · Newark

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 76 employers in Newark, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4546 Port Hueneme, C 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1501 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4303 HIGHLAND, CA 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1389 N. MYRTLE BEACH, SC 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Oil Producing Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holmes Supply Corp 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vixcon Co LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapphire Steel 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Licking Memorial Hospital 1,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Support Services 1,421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owens Corning Neark Insulation Plant 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owens Corning 492 FTE
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (XWT-6599) 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Evansville Building 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Navarro Regional LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Park City Lodging, Inc. 6.6 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.