Retail Other · Ohio

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH

Grove City, OH · ~23 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH: 6.5 TCR = 191% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH safety composite

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.98 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 #451 GROVE CITY, OH: 6.5 → 18.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 18.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.77× in 2023

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH's TCR rose 11.4 from 6.5 in 2016 to 18.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Grove City, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 191% of ind

  • DART 18.0 DART
  • RANK #103/121
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5440…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5440 Beaufort, SC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH averages 6.5 TCR (191% 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 #451 GROVE CITY, OH TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=13.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=18 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 121 Retail Other employers in Ohio.

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH (23 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 #451 GROVE CITY, OH
Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH (23 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #451 GROVE CITY, OH 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 18.0 18.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 13.6 6.8 2 0 0
2019 7.1 7.1 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.6 6.6 1 0 0
2016 6.5 6.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · OH · Grove City

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 139 employers in Grove City, OH · 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 #5440 Beaufort, SC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2419 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5246 Wilmington, DE 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1144 BROKEN ARROW, OK 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schlessman Seed Co 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-COLO 1,602 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Carmel Grove City Hospital 1,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6024 1,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6024 1,052 FTE
NAT-TCR 2012-Ucpmc-Jones Ira 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington National Golf Club 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux Falls Best Western Plus Ramkota 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolfe & Associates, Property Services 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #540 ST. PETERSBURG, FL 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1926 El Paso, TX 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1171 STOCKBRIDGE, GA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1761 Dubois, PA 23 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.

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