Retail Other · Michigan

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI

Portage, MI · ~23 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI: 4.8 TCR = 142% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI safety composite

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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 #4695 Portage, MI: 0.0 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI's TCR rose 10.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 10.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Portage, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/54
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4684…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4684 Fresno, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI averages 4.8 TCR (142% 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 #4695 Portage, MI TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 54 Retail Other employers in Michigan.

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI (23 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 #4695 Portage, MI
Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI (23 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4695 Portage, MI has more 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 10.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 13.8 13.8 1 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MI · Portage

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 136 employers in Portage, MI · 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 #4684 Fresno, CA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2659 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1528 AUBURN, ME 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2450 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - MIS 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casey Woodwyk, Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Schuring, Jr. Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atwood Timber and Lumber 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Polymers, Inc. 1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4684 Fresno, CA 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Building Products PHLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Overseas Hardwoods Company -Texas 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (7) 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #3 AUGUSTA, GA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5433 Joplin, MO 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4515 Vancouver, WA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4581 Modesto, CA 23 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. 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.