Retail Other · Minnesota

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN

Blaine, MN · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN safety composite

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN: 0.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN's TCR rose 9.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Blaine, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/31
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #473 …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #473 BUTLER, PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN averages 1.2 TCR (35% 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 #4643 Blaine, MN TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 31 Retail Other employers in Minnesota.

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN (22 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 #4643 Blaine, MN
Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN (22 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN 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 9.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MN · Blaine

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 163 employers in Blaine, MN · 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 #473 BUTLER, PA 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bowlin's Flying C Ranch 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5323 North Bergen, NJ 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #539 LARGO, FL 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunrise Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Greenstreak Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dassel 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estee Lauder - Blaine 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infinite Campus, Inc. 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1832 - Blaine 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3498 352 FTE
NAT-TCR BTA Oil Producers, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North Kansas City 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific View 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 205 - Mt. Pleasant Store 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5240 Northport, AL 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1435 MILFORD, MA 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4052 BUENA PARK, CA 22 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, 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.