Retail Other · Maine

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME

Augusta, ME · ~18 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME: 7.9 TCR = 232% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME safety composite

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 #4525 AUGUSTA, ME: 8.2 → 21.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 21.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.73× in 2023

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME's TCR rose 13.3 from 8.2 in 2016 to 21.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Augusta, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 232% of ind

  • DART 21.5 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO 1550
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1550 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME averages 7.9 TCR (232% 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 #4525 AUGUSTA, ME TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=16.4 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=21.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Retail Other employers in Maine.

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME (18 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 #4525 AUGUSTA, ME
Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME (18 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME 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 21.5 21.5 2 0 0
2022 9.1 9.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 16.4 16.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.2 8.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · ME · Augusta

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 73 employers in Augusta, ME · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1550 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses Express 650 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #449 MICHIGAN CITY, IN 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5182 Simpsonville, S 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ReEnergy Ashland LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE PayneRd 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE TAMBRANDS GALENA SOUTH 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLIDDEN Roofing Corp. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR MaineGeneral Medical Center - Alfond Center for Health 2,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR CMP - Augusta General Office 401 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice Northcenter - 0710 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2046 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Cal Diamond Partners 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Homeland 468 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Champaign - Springer 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Transitions Inc 7.9 TCR

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.