Retail Other · Vermont

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT

Essex Junction, VT · ~27 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT: 9.0 TCR = 265% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT safety composite

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 #1854 Essex Junction, VT: 5.4 → 25.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 25.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.82× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT's TCR rose 20.0 from 5.4 in 2016 to 25.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Essex Junction, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 265% of ind

  • DART 25.4 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO 2527
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2527 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT averages 9.0 TCR (265% 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 #1854 Essex Junction, VT TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=6 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=14.1 · 2023=25.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Retail Other employers in Vermont.

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT (27 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 #1854 Essex Junction, VT
Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT (27 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1854 Essex Junction, VT has more 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 25.4 25.4 3 0 0
2022 14.1 7.1 2 0 0
2021 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2019 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · VT · Essex Junction

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 31 employers in Essex Junction, VT · 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 2527 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104 Coventry RI 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1498 SUMMERVILLE, SC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4026 SANTA ANA, CA 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE F R LAFAYETTE INC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.C. Hathorne Co. a Div. of Melanson Co. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaValley Ludlow Building Supply 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR GLOBALFOUNDRIES Burlington 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR GlobalFoundries - Burlington 1,821 FTE
CITY-NEAR VT - Essex - 30 Gauthier Dr - Keurig Green Mountain Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR PLB 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Arcola Health Care 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Menlo Park Mall 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 425 Reservoir Ave(Center) 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ponca City Discount Food 419 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4047 LA MESA, CA 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5364 Mays Landing, NJ 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1964 Houston, TX 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yaeger Auto Salvage Inc 27 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.