Retail Other · California

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA

Hercules, CA · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA: 4.9 TCR = 144% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA safety composite

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 #1957 Hercules, CA: 12.0 → 14.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.97× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA's TCR rose 2.5 from 12.0 in 2016 to 14.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Hercules, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 144% of ind

  • DART 14.5 DART
  • RANK #105/255
  • PHOTO Runnings of Hettinger
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

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

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Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA averages 4.9 TCR (144% 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 #1957 Hercules, CA TCR series: 2016=12 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=12.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #105 safest of 255 Retail Other employers in California.

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA (27 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 #1957 Hercules, CA
Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, CA (27 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1957 Hercules, 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
2023 14.5 14.5 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 12.6 6.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 12.0 6.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · Hercules

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 9 employers in Hercules, 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 Runnings of Hettinger 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5455 Newberry, SC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5318 Middletown, OH 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #405 CLEVELAND, TN 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 91 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bio-Rad Hercules Campus 1,517 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02874 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-02874 FAC-02874-HERCULES-CA 138 FTE
NAT-TCR Converse (Noble) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SGS Retail - Point Comfort 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Decker Farms, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR R 1601 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4693 Vancouver, WA 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1810 Calumet City, IL 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #560 BRANDON, FL 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #515 EUSTIS, FL 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, 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.