Retail Other · Texas

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX

Houston, TX · ~20 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX: 8.1 TCR = 239% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX safety composite

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 #1986 Houston, TX: 0.0 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 24.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2023

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX's TCR rose 10.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 24.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 239% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #119/128
  • PHOTO 2899
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2899 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX averages 8.1 TCR (239% 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 #1986 Houston, TX TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=24.2 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 128 Retail Other employers in Texas.

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX (20 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 #1986 Houston, TX
Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX (20 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #1986 Houston, TX 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 10.6 10.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.9 7.9 1 0 0
2020 7.8 7.8 1 0 0
2019 24.2 24.2 3 0 0
2018 14.5 14.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · TX · Houston

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 2899 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1587 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #153 HARRISON, OH 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2523 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms TXP 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CANNONADE SOD FARM 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Cooperative Society #1 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slaton Coop Gin 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Tampa, FL 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Hospital Louisville 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kriete Truck Center Milwaukee 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Engineer Mechanical Contractor, Inc 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1853 Englewood, FL 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4592 Great Falls, MT 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #245 JACKSON, MI 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1005 LEXINGTON, NC 20 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.