Retail Other · Maryland

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD

Elkton, MD · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD: 6.3 TCR = 186% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD safety composite

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 30.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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 #1958 ELKTON, MD: 0.0 → 30.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 30.2 TCR · DART/TCR 4.79× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD's TCR rose 30.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 30.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 4.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Elkton, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 186% of ind

  • DART 30.2 DART
  • RANK #42/48
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4449…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4449 GRESHAM, OR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD averages 6.3 TCR (186% 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 #1958 ELKTON, MD TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=30.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 48 Retail Other employers in Maryland.

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD (21 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 #1958 ELKTON, MD
Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD (21 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1958 ELKTON, MD 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 30.2 30.2 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MD · Elkton

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 76 employers in Elkton, MD · 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 #4449 GRESHAM, OR 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2648 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2518 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2906 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salisbury Hatchery #2 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1996-Galena, MD (Monsanto Co.) 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mag Spec Chemicals OH 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Annapolis 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Union Hospital of Cecil County 1,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR TERUMO MEDICAL CORPORATION 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGDS-MD50 597 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4449 GRESHAM, OR 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 21U1 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirkwood * 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR nVent 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #833 ASHLAND, KY 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5107 Clinton Twp, MI 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1487 LEWISVILLE, TX 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #475 E ROCHESTER, PA 21 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. 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.