Retail Other · Florida

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL

Lakeland, FL · ~23 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL: 5.5 TCR = 162% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL safety composite

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.46 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 #5196 Lakeland, FL: 6.9 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL's TCR rose 2.6 from 6.9 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Lakeland, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 162% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #91/120
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1403…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1403 WILMINGTON, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL averages 5.5 TCR (162% 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 #5196 Lakeland, FL TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=13.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 120 Retail Other employers in Florida.

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL (23 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 #5196 Lakeland, FL
Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL (23 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL has more 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 9.5 9.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.5 7.5 1 0 0
2020 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 13.4 6.7 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.9 6.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · FL · Lakeland

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, FL · 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 #1403 WILMINGTON, NC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1887 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Runnings of Watertown 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5409 Cincinnati, OH 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GOPHER RIDGE GROVE 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE DESOTO GROVE 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oasis 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1247- HA- Live Oak, FL 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR American Commercial Industrial Electric LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kroger - Indianapolis in 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Coon Rapids 3309 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennsylvania 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4647 Lubbock, TX 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #235 ST. ANN, MO 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4617 Manteca, CA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5116 Catonville, MD 23 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.