Retail Other · California

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA

Lancaster, CA · ~28 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA: 7.1 TCR = 210% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA safety composite

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 #4277 LANCASTER, CA: 12.0 → 19.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2023

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA's TCR rose 6.9 from 12.0 in 2016 to 19.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 210% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #190/255
  • PHOTO Western Sioux Falls SD
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Western Sioux Falls SD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA averages 7.1 TCR (210% 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 #4277 LANCASTER, CA TCR series: 2016=12 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=19.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=19 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #190 safest of 255 Retail Other employers in California.

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA (28 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 #4277 LANCASTER, CA
Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA (28 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, 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 19.0 9.5 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 19.5 13.0 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 12.0 6.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · Lancaster

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 131 employers in Lancaster, 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 Western Sioux Falls SD 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonney Lake 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #82 PRINCETON, WV 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Ranch L.L.C. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steinbeck Country Produce 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlan Family Ranch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE KKG Equipment Company, LLC32 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Antelope Valley Union High School District 3,219 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 549 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California State Prison-Los Angeles County 1,505 FTE
CITY-NEAR BYD Coach & Bus LLC 679 FTE
NAT-TCR Charleston RHCC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gervais School District 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Angelica Forest Products 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SVZ 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4666 Roseburg, OR 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4595 Salem, OR 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1218 GAITHERSBURG, MD 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1951 Bridgeville, PA 28 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.