Retail Other · Massachusetts

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA

Ashland, MA · ~18 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA: 3.2 TCR = 95% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA safety composite

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 #5194 Ashland, MA: 0.0 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 3.15× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA's TCR rose 10.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 10.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Ashland, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 95% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #25/83
  • PHOTO Las Vegas Store
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Las Vegas Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA averages 3.2 TCR (95% 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 #5194 Ashland, MA TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=10.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 83 Retail Other employers in Massachusetts.

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA (18 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 #5194 Ashland, MA
Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA (18 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5194 Ashland, MA 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 10.2 10.2 1 0 0
2022 9.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MA · Ashland

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 21 employers in Ashland, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Las Vegas Store 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1599 SAN ANTONIO, TX 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5296 Middletown, CT 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1016 YORK, PA 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bluepoint Wind 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Channel Building Company Inc 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5021 - Halifax MA - Leasing 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE C. White Marine, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #46 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kidde-Fenwal, Inc 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA-MA-Kidde Fenwal-Ashland Factory 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terumo Cardiovascular Group 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Kenworth Truck Company 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Applied Solutions Group (ASG) : Wakefield-Pelham 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bag Makers, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HIL 22 Hillside 3.2 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.