Retail Other · California

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA

Fountain Valley, CA · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA: 8.6 TCR = 254% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA safety composite

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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 #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA: 0.0 → 16.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA's TCR rose 16.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 16.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Fountain Valley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 254% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #221/255
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #445 …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #445 SUMMERSVILLE, WV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA averages 8.6 TCR (254% 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 #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=17.2 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=16.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA 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 California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #221 safest of 255 Retail Other employers in California.

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA (21 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA
Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA (21 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4248 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA 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
2020 16.5 0.0 2 0 0
2019 9.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 17.2 8.6 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 · CA · Fountain Valley

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 88 employers in Fountain Valley, 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 #445 SUMMERSVILLE, WV 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1993 MUNHALL, PA 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4755 Lake Worth, TX 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5938 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR OCM00 ORANGE COAST MEMORIAL MED CTR 1,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-024 1,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMF00 MEMORIALCARE MED FOUNDATION 1,470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pan-Pacific Mechanical 924 FTE
NAT-TCR life care center of Yuma 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rubber City Machinery Corp. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vita Plus (Columbus) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Irrigation, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1537 WEBB CITY, MO 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #422 YPSILANTI, MI 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1013 WINSTON-SALEM, NC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1686 LOUISVILLE, KY 21 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.