Retail Other · Illinois

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL

Elgin, IL · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL: 5.4 TCR = 160% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL safety composite

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−17.7

2016→2023

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL injury rate improved

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL's TCR fell 17.7 from 17.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 17.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=17.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #50/61
  • PHOTO 2917
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2917 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL averages 5.4 TCR (160% 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 #4615 Elgin, IL TCR series: 2016=17.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=17.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 61 Retail Other employers in Illinois.

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL (17 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 #4615 Elgin, IL
Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL (17 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 17.5 17.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 17.7 17.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · IL · Elgin

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 2917 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5202 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5111 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4256 RIVERSIDE, CA 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Neoga 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility - NWRWRF - Village of Fox Lake 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airoom Architect Holdings, LLC 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (JPT-6625) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglass Colony Group Colorado Springs. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus - Jackson 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Children's Museum 5.4 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, 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.