Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC

Kinston, NC · ~20 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC: 7.0 TCR = 207% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 #1703 KINSTON, NC: 8.8 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 19.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC's TCR rose 2.8 from 8.8 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 19.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 207% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #100/117
  • PHOTO Runnings of Windom
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Runnings of Windom (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC averages 7.0 TCR (207% 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 #1703 KINSTON, NC TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=19.1 · 2023=11.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #100 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC (20 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 #1703 KINSTON, NC
Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, NC (20 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1703 KINSTON, 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 11.6 11.6 1 0 0
2022 19.1 9.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.5 8.5 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.3 8.3 1 0 0
2016 8.8 8.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NC · Kinston

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, 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 Runnings of Windom 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #810 CHESAPEAKE, VA 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5152 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1166 DUNMORE, PA 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Southeast Milk, Inc. Avon Park Trucking 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Babylon UFSD 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Distributing Company (4949) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ronfeldt Manufacturing LLC d/b/a Ice Industries Ronfeldt 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1446 DERRY, NH 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1495 MOUNT STERLING, KY 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1046 SPARTANBURG, SC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5301 Hamilton, NY 20 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.