Retail Other · New Jersey

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ

Union, NJ · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ: 6.5 TCR = 193% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ safety composite

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 #4720 Union, NJ: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2023

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2021 to 10.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Union, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 193% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #54/62
  • PHOTO Runnings of Hinsdale
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Runnings of Hinsdale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ averages 6.5 TCR (193% 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 #4720 Union, NJ TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 62 Retail Other employers in New Jersey.

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ (19 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 #4720 Union, NJ
Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ (19 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #4720 Union, NJ 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 10.7 10.7 1 0 0
2022 8.9 8.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NJ · Union

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 89 employers in Union, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Runnings of Hinsdale 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 37626265--CARUSO AFFILIATED AMERICANA 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1389 N. MYRTLE BEACH, SC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Road 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joseph J. White, Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elizabethtown Gas-Erie Street 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flemington office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concentric Group LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR 800 Rahway Ave - Bldg D 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deep Foods Inc 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Union 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR 11754 364 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Buildings/Waterfront Develop 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HomTex, Inc. - Sylva 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ideal Image, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum Woodworking & Interiors LLC 6.5 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. 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.