Retail Other · Ohio

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH

Parma Heights, OH · ~26 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH: 5.9 TCR = 173% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH safety composite

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH: 6.9 → 19.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH's TCR rose 12.6 from 6.9 in 2016 to 19.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Parma Heights, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 173% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #97/121
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1783…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1783 Derby, CT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH averages 5.9 TCR (173% 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 #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=19.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #97 safest of 121 Retail Other employers in Ohio.

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH (26 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH
Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH (26 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH has more 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 19.5 9.7 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 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 6.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 14.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 6.9 6.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · OH · Parma Heights

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 6 employers in Parma Heights, 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 Big Lots Store #1783 Derby, CT 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redwood Falls Runnings 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5254 York, PA 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4262 PEMBROKE PINES, FL 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hog and Maitenance 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE YNOT Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE OA Facility Maintenance Shop 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMT INDUSTRIES 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greenbrier Parma 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parma Heights 10162 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parma Heights 162 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHN002 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1783 Derby, CT 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR William J Jones & Son INc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Buffalo, NY 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudy Construction 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1806 Greensboro, NC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1984 Philadelphia, PA 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #528 ORANGE CITY, FL 26 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.