Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC

Albemarle, NC · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC: 4.3 TCR = 126% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.2

2016→2023

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC injury rate improved

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC's TCR fell 8.2 from 8.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.2 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=8.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #78/117
  • PHOTO Runnings of Marshall
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

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

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Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC averages 4.3 TCR (126% 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 #1844 Albemarle, NC TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #78 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC (17 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 #1844 Albemarle, NC
Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, NC (17 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1844 Albemarle, 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.6 9.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.0 8.0 1 0 0
2017 8.3 8.3 1 0 0
2016 8.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NC · Albemarle

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 55 employers in Albemarle, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Runnings of Marshall 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1817 Cincinnati, OH 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1749 Austin, TX 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4002 DOWNEY, CA 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCE 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinston Work Center 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Office 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1113-Atrium Health Stanly (1113) 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Stanly 546 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0040-CHS Stanly 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin Aircraft Tire Company 406 FTE
NAT-TCR Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center - Fort Worth 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Pad Products 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SMOC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TraffTech, Inc. 4.3 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.