Retail Other · Kentucky

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY

Bowling Green, KY · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY: 3.0 TCR = 88% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY safety composite

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY held a steady TCR band

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/44
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1734…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1734 TIFFIN, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY averages 3.0 TCR (88% 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 #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 44 Retail Other employers in Kentucky.

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY (25 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY
Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY (25 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #180 BOWLING GREEN, KY has more 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.6 7.6 1 0 0
2018 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · KY · Bowling Green

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 331 employers in Bowling Green, KY · 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 #1734 TIFFIN, OH 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 274 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1910 LAKEWOOD, CA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5151 Fenton, MO 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Murdock Farms Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lane's End Farm Oak Tree Division 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henderson Municipal Gas 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wescott Construction 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Kentucky University-Bowling Green 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Medical Center at Bowling Green 1,872 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Bowling Green Metalforming 1,441 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bowling Green Metalforming 1,344 FTE
NAT-TCR GSA 99th New Jersey 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops Market #66 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta ES Suites Providence Airport 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PFG Specialty dba Larry Kline Wholesale Meat - 3220 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mark Wright Construction INC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5199 Baltimore, MD 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Stores #4665 Hanford, CA 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4196 IRVINE, TX 25 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: 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.