Retail Other · California

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA

Gardena, CA · ~34 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA: 5.0 TCR = 146% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA safety composite

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.38 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 #4031 GARDENA, CA: 5.5 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.9× in 2023

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA's TCR rose 8.9 from 5.5 in 2016 to 14.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 146% of ind

  • DART 14.4 DART
  • RANK #110/255
  • PHOTO Runnings of Brookings
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

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

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Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA averages 5.0 TCR (146% 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 #4031 GARDENA, CA TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=9.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=10 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #110 safest of 255 Retail Other employers in California.

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA (34 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 #4031 GARDENA, CA
Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, CA (34 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4031 GARDENA, 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 14.4 14.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2016 5.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · Gardena

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 Brookings 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1143 HOT SPRINGS, AR 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4737 Farmington Hills, MI 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4749 Turlock, CA 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electric Service, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal American Management, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Freeway Cleveland 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Corrections (30) 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Qualiform 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4225 MIAMI, FL 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE NurseCore of Syracuse HC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowe & Young Inc 34 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.