Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC

Burlington, NC · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC: 5.8 TCR = 171% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−5.3

2016→2023

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC injury rate improved

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC's TCR fell 5.3 from 14.7 in 2016 to 9.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=9.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Burlington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #95/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4623…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4623 Northridge, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC averages 5.8 TCR (171% 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 #499 BURLINGTON, NC TCR series: 2016=14.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #95 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC (22 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 #499 BURLINGTON, NC
Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC (22 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #499 BURLINGTON, NC 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 9.4 9.4 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 15.1 15.1 2 0 0
2018 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 14.7 14.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NC · Burlington

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 148 employers in Burlington, NC · 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 #4623 Northridge, CA 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1716 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stockdale's Selmer 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1084 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE A Plus Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Ridge Farms Partnership 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanguard Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE LNM - 105 -EST 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Lakes Community 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR York Road 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Retirement Ministries of Alamance County 373 FTE
NAT-TCR North Star Mall 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lees Summit 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4623 Northridge, CA 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ABC Santa Fe 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5143 Jacksonville, FL 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1832 San Antonio, TX 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4643 Blaine, MN 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5240 Northport, AL 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.