Retail Other · California

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA

Laguna Hills, CA · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA: 6.8 TCR = 201% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA safety composite

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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 #1897 Laguna Hills, CA: 6.6 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 20.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2020

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA's TCR rose 0.8 from 6.6 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Laguna Hills, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 201% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #178/255
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4465…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4465 MEDFORD, OR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA averages 6.8 TCR (201% 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 #1897 Laguna Hills, CA TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=20.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #178 safest of 255 Retail Other employers in California.

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA (26 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 #1897 Laguna Hills, CA
Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA (26 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1897 Laguna Hills, CA 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
2020 7.4 7.4 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 20.1 13.4 3 0 0
2016 6.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · Laguna Hills

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 56 employers in Laguna Hills, CA · 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 #4465 MEDFORD, OR 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4671 East Haven, CT 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1939 Idaho Falls, ID 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4295 SPRING VALLEY, CA 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAULING & TRAILER SHOP 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seasholtz Co., LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Valley Vineyards 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Central Coast Vineyards 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMM00 SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL MED CENTER 1,752 FTE
CITY-NEAR RbA Orange County 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moulton Niguel Water District 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laguna Hills 529 152 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 1061 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 849 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1323 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Milan-Deere Returns 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots #1810 Calumet City, IL 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS Newark-007EWR 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Seekonk 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS Milwaukee-250MKE 26 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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