Retail Other · Pennsylvania

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA

Erie, PA · ~24 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA: 2.9 TCR = 84% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA safety composite

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 #5121 Erie, PA: 0.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3.34× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA's TCR rose 9.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Erie, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 84% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #18/88
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1801…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1801 Naples, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA averages 2.9 TCR (84% 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 #5121 Erie, PA TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 88 Retail Other employers in Pennsylvania.

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA (24 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 #5121 Erie, PA
Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA (24 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA has more employees than the Retail Other median and a lower 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 9.5 9.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · PA · Erie

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, PA · 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 #1801 Naples, FL 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5164 Raleigh, NC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #428 CINCINNATI, OH 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #275 SENECA, SC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesburg PA 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Electric Power LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR Sheepshead-Nostrand 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jensen's Plumbing & Heating 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pfeiffer & Son, Ltd 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR essential Industries 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5134 Dearborn, MI 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4705 Salinas, CA 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #206 FAYETTEVILLE, NC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1934 Woodland, CA 24 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.