Retail Other · Pennsylvania

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA

Wilkes Barre, PA · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA: 3.6 TCR = 107% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA safety composite

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA: 0.0 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA's TCR rose 10.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 10.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Wilkes Barre, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 107% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #29/88
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4580…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4580 Covington, WA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA averages 3.6 TCR (107% 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 #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 88 Retail Other employers in Pennsylvania.

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA (19 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA
Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA (19 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1737 WILKES BARRE, PA has fewer employees than the Retail Other median and a lower 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 10.9 10.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · PA · Wilkes Barre

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 86 employers in Wilkes Barre, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4580 Covington, WA 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1066 ST. JOSEPH, MO 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #411 LYNCHBURG, VA 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1487 LEWISVILLE, TX 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kennett Square Mushroom Operation, LLC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamsport Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE 473-NiSource-PA Central Horning Rd MOD 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEISINGER WYOMING VALLEY MEDIC 2,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR AVP1 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkes Barre Hospital Company, LLC 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC 517 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1487 LEWISVILLE, TX 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 10420 Indian School Plaza (WO) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #411 LYNCHBURG, VA 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Warrensburg- Recovery 3.6 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. 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.