Retail Other · Michigan

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI

Traverse City, MI · ~19 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI: 3.5 TCR = 104% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI safety composite

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 #5186 Traverse City, MI: 8.1 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.72× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI's TCR rose 1.6 from 8.1 in 2019 to 9.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Traverse City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 104% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #28/54
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4042…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4042 UPLAND, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI averages 3.5 TCR (104% 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 #5186 Traverse City, MI TCR series: 2019=8.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 54 Retail Other employers in Michigan.

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI (19 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 #5186 Traverse City, MI
Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI (19 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, MI has fewer 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 9.7 9.7 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 8.1 8.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MI · Traverse City

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 197 employers in Traverse City, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4042 UPLAND, CA 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1546 FORT SMITH, AR 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 411 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4289 RENO, NV 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Everbest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Greenhouse) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rieth-Riley - Houghton Lake 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arenac County Road Commission 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Lupient Buick GMC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4042 UPLAND, CA 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trucchi's Supermarket #2 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cumberland 3.5 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. 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.