Retail Other · Vermont

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT

Barre, VT · ~20 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT runs at 417% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT: 14.2 TCR = 417% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT safety composite

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2016→2023

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT injury rate improved

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT's TCR fell 2.0 from 15.2 in 2016 to 13.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.2 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=14.7 · 2019=16.1 · 2021=19.2 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=13.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Barre, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.2 · 417% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO 326 Waterbury CT
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 326 Waterbury CT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT averages 14.2 TCR (417% 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 #4520 Barre, VT TCR series: 2016=15.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=14.7 · 2019=16.1 · 2021=19.2 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=13.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Retail Other employers in Vermont.

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT (20 employees, TCR 14.2) 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 #4520 Barre, VT
Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT (20 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT 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
2023 13.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 20.9 10.4 2 0 0
2021 19.2 9.6 2 0 0
2019 16.1 8.1 2 0 0
2018 14.7 7.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 15.2 15.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · VT · Barre

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 17 employers in Barre, VT · 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 326 Waterbury CT 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 401 Peterboro NH 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 226 Fairhaven MA 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Fridays Daily Discount Store-Dyer 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ryegate Associates 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMP General Service Center - Royalton 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Wadsworth Company 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICV Construction, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capital Candy Co., Inc 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8129 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR BARRE #123 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR VTBAR - BARRE 102 FTE
NAT-TCR Villas of Holly Brook - Monticello 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ACE Extrusion, LLC. 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0020-0020-02574 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 095280-New Castle Po 14.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4598 Abilene, TX 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5150 North Augusta, GA 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #416 LATROBE, PA 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4717 Gilroy, CA 20 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, 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.