Retail Other · Ohio

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH

Lima, OH · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH: 4.7 TCR = 138% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH safety composite

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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 #5099 Lima, OH: 7.9 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH's TCR rose 4.4 from 7.9 in 2016 to 12.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Lima, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 138% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #77/121
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5147…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5147 Manchester, CT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH averages 4.7 TCR (138% 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 #5099 Lima, OH TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=9 · 2022=0 · 2023=12.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 121 Retail Other employers in Ohio.

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH (18 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 #5099 Lima, OH
Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH (18 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5099 Lima, OH 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 12.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.0 9.0 1 0 0
2020 8.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.9 7.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · OH · Lima

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5147 Manchester, CT 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2473 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4728 Burbank, IL 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 230 Westfield MA 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Oil Producing Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holmes Supply Corp 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vixcon Co LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapphire Steel 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at Cockeysville 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City 065 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5147 Manchester, CT 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JAE Oregon 4.7 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, 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.