Retail Other · California

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA

Van Nuys, CA · ~38 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA: 5.8 TCR = 171% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA safety composite

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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 #4128 VAN NUYS, CA: 4.2 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2020

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.2 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Van Nuys, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #143/255
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5334…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5334 Hamilton, NJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA averages 5.8 TCR (171% 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 #4128 VAN NUYS, CA TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=12.1 · 2018=4 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=4.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #143 safest of 255 Retail Other employers in California.

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA (38 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 #4128 VAN NUYS, CA
Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA (38 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, 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
2020 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2019 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2017 12.1 12.1 3 0 0
2016 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · Van Nuys

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 192 employers in Van Nuys, 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 Big Lots Store #5334 Hamilton, NJ 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1675 DANVILLE, VA 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3200 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stockdale's Selmer 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O SHIPPING 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAR & S Farm Labor Services, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Almonds of California, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bays Ranch Inc 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Presbyterian Hospital 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-048 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-063 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR VAN NUYS HUB (CAVAN) 864 FTE
NAT-TCR New York Environmental Systems, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0080-Atrium Health Cleveland 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OR007 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 366 Mesa, Az 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Elgin 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS 641MKC Kansas City 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 123 - Liberty Retail Store 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 204 - Shawnee Retail Store 38 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: 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.