Retail Other · Maine

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME

Auburn, ME · ~23 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME: 4.8 TCR = 142% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME safety composite

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.41 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 #1528 AUBURN, ME: 7.2 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.16× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME's TCR rose 3.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 2.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Auburn, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 142% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO 2450
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2450 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME averages 4.8 TCR (142% 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 #1528 AUBURN, ME TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=16.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Retail Other employers in Maine.

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME (23 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 #1528 AUBURN, ME
Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME (23 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME 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 10.4 10.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 16.2 8.1 2 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 7.2 7.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · ME · Auburn

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 100 employers in Auburn, ME · 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 2450 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1857 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2797 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses 380 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE E.J. Perry Construction Co., Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwin Well & Water, Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ferraiolo 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pittsfield Fab and Coatings 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR John F Murphy Homes, Inc 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1868 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1868 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer Plastics - Auburn 411 FTE
NAT-TCR Joval Mfg. Co. Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH006 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashland AHQ 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5283 Lumberton, NJ 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5147 Manchester, CT 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1775 North Cape May, NJ 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1238 FITCHBURG, MA 23 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, 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.