Retail Other · California

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA · ~21 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA: 3.8 TCR = 111% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA safety composite

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA held a steady TCR band

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 111% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #58/255
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4282…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4282 MILPITAS, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA averages 3.8 TCR (111% 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 #4564 Encinitas, CA TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=0 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #58 safest of 255 Retail Other employers in California.

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA (21 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 #4564 Encinitas, CA
Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA (21 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4564 Encinitas, CA has fewer employees than the Retail Other median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.1 10.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.4 8.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.8 7.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · Rancho Santa Margarita

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Rancho Santa Margarita, 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 Big Lots Store #4282 MILPITAS, CA 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1514 MUNCY, PA 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1466 BOARDMAN, OH 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #294 ALCOA, TN 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Applied Medical 4,417 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Connell Landscape Maintenance 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Circle M Contractors 574 FTE
CITY-NEAR Control Components Inc 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Bio Industries Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TN105 Lebanon (American Corrugated) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Warner University 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Traffic Control 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5149 Goldsboro, NC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4140 GARLAND, TX 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1586 NASHUA, NH 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1513 GOFFSTOWN, NH 21 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, 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.