Retail Other · Louisiana

Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA

Covington, LA · ~18 workers · 8 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 #1836 Covington, LA runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA: 3.6 TCR = 105% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA safety composite

Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 #1836 Covington, LA: 0.0 → 19.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.78× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA's TCR rose 19.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 19.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Covington, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 105% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #12/23
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4289…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4289 RENO, NV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA averages 3.6 TCR (105% 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 #1836 Covington, LA TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=19.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 23 Retail Other employers in Louisiana.

Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA (18 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 #1836 Covington, LA
Big Lots Store #1836 Covington, LA (18 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 #1836 Covington, LA 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 19.8 9.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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 · LA · Covington

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 104 employers in Covington, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4289 RENO, NV 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #206 FAYETTEVILLE, NC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1684 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1919 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Broussard Wireline 1062 Aillet Rd 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineville Apparatus Maintenance 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE JW Grand Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft Polk -Womens Health 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company Gulf of Mexico 2,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a Campus of Tulane Medical Center 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Apache Concrete Cutting, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RCC Holdings, LLC (California) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Mart 513 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor 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, 2020, 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.