Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC

Elkin, NC · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC: 1.4 TCR = 40% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 #224 ELKIN, NC: 0.0 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 7.98× in 2023

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC's TCR rose 10.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 7.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Elkin, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 40% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #15/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1798…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1798 Dublin, GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC averages 1.4 TCR (40% 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 #224 ELKIN, NC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC (19 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 #224 ELKIN, NC
Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC (19 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #224 ELKIN, NC has fewer employees than the Retail Other median and a lower 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 10.9 10.9 1 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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 · NC · Elkin

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 40 employers in Elkin, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1798 Dublin, GA 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5365 New Hartford, NY 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FDM Associates Inc - SFS 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5210 Saugerties, NY 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Elkin 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1337 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1337 330 FTE
NAT-TCR Sub-Zero Phoenix 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EFCO 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks at Suwanee Creek 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1798 Dublin, GA 1.4 TCR

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.