Retail Other · Indiana

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I

Merrillville, IN · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I: 7.8 TCR = 228% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I safety composite

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 #5088 Merrillville, I: 0.0 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I's TCR rose 15.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 15.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 228% of ind

  • DART 15.5 DART
  • RANK #44/47
  • PHOTO 2947
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2947 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I averages 7.8 TCR (228% 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 #5088 Merrillville, I TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=15.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 47 Retail Other employers in Indiana.

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I (20 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 #5088 Merrillville, I
Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I (20 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5088 Merrillville, I 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
2017 15.5 15.5 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · IN · Merrillville

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 97 employers in Merrillville, IN · 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 2947 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 72nd Street 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4274 RIALTO, CA 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1917 SANTA CLARITA, CA 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoosierland Pork 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Family Farm, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corydon Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE HVA P&C Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR 275-NiSource-Merrillville IN-SLC 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albanese Confectionery Group 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1618 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Mental Health Center 371 FTE
NAT-TCR Legends - Circle Line Cruises 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rchc Ga-Columbus Companion 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chat of Mi. 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105 Stonecrest Drive 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 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: 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.