Retail Other · New York

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY

Buffalo, NY · ~26 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY: 4.7 TCR = 137% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY safety composite

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 #1597 BUFFALO, NY: 6.5 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 3.73× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY's TCR rose 10.9 from 6.5 in 2016 to 17.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 137% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #66/98
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5096…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5096 Independence, MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY averages 4.7 TCR (137% 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 #1597 BUFFALO, NY TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=17.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 98 Retail Other employers in New York.

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY (26 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 #1597 BUFFALO, NY
Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY (26 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY 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 17.3 17.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.5 6.5 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.5 6.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NY · Buffalo

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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 #5096 Independence, MO 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2180 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Hill 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4126 NATIONAL CITY, CA 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Volles Dairy Farm, LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG&E Mushroom Blvd 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG&E Fillmore 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Fulton 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5096 Independence, MO 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Moorhead 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle (Kent) 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerry - Red Arrow 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4264 SANTA ANA, CA 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1496 PARMA HEIGHTS, OH 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1806 Greensboro, NC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4604 Tempe, AZ 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.