Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #5086

Charlotte, NC · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5086 runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #5086: 9.6 TCR = 281% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5086 safety composite

Big Lots Store #5086 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−0.7

2016→2018

Big Lots Store #5086 injury rate improved

Big Lots Store #5086's TCR fell 0.7 from 7.2 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=15.1 · 2018=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 281% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #111/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4572…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4572 Brighton, CO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5086 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5086 averages 9.6 TCR (281% 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 #5086 TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=15.1 · 2018=6.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5086 falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #111 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #5086 (25 employees, TCR 9.6) 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 #5086
Big Lots Store #5086 (25 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5086 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
2018 6.5 6.5 1 0 0
2017 15.1 15.1 2 0 0
2016 7.2 7.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NC · Charlotte

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 #4572 Brighton, CO 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mast Store - Original 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4621 Port Orchard, WA 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #416 LATROBE, PA 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Holland - DR 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Decatur Center (Ildct) 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR North Carolina 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BITZER Scroll, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Stores #5134 Dearborn, MI 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4557 San Jose, Ca 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5139 N. Charleston, 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4551 Lake Elsinore, 25 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: 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.