Retail Other · Alabama

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL

Gadsden, AL · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL: 8.8 TCR = 260% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL safety composite

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 #356 GADSDEN, AL: 0.0 → 17.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL's TCR rose 17.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 17.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Gadsden, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 260% of ind

  • DART 17.7 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO YEAGER'S SPORTING GO…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: YEAGER'S SPORTING GOODS & MARINA, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL averages 8.8 TCR (260% 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 #356 GADSDEN, AL TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=17.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 Retail Other employers in Alabama.

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL (19 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 #356 GADSDEN, AL
Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL (19 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #356 GADSDEN, AL 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
2017 17.7 17.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · AL · Gadsden

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 82 employers in Gadsden, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR YEAGER'S SPORTING GOODS & MARINA, INC. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3548 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 207 Medway MA 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5089 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Selma 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Selma Operations Center 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hughes Companies, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine City Contractors, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Gadsden Alabama 1,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gadsden Regional Medical Center 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant 1,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Plant 850 FTE
NAT-TCR Peterson Hospice 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PS Alpharetta 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Absolute Plastics 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxford Health and Rehab Center 8.8 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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