Retail Other · Maine

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME

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

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME: 8.4 TCR = 248% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME safety composite

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 #4534 Portland, ME: 0.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2023

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME's TCR rose 11.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 248% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store, #196…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store, #1962 Anaheim, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME averages 8.4 TCR (248% 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 #4534 Portland, ME TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=17.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=9 · 2021=0 · 2022=21.6 · 2023=11 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #11 safest of 13 Retail Other employers in Maine.

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME (18 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 #4534 Portland, ME
Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, ME (18 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4534 Portland, 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 11.0 11.0 1 0 0
2022 21.6 21.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.0 9.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 17.4 8.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · ME · Portland

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 244 employers in Portland, ME · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store, #1962 Anaheim, CA 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4394 SACRAMENTO, CA 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2039 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #83 LORAIN, OH 8.5 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 MMC 8,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC- 22 Bram 5,535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Point32Health Portland 4,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMP Practices 2,063 FTE
NAT-TCR GP Services LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store, #1962 Anaheim, CA 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pellet America Corporation Appleton 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkway Products, LLC WES 8.4 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.