Retail Other · New Jersey

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ

Middletown, NJ · ~26 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ safety composite

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% 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%).

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ held a steady TCR band

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Middletown, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/62
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4387…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4387 AUSTIN, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ averages 0.9 TCR (26% 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 #5198 Middleton, NJ TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 62 Retail Other employers in New Jersey.

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ (26 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 #5198 Middleton, NJ
Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ (26 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5198 Middleton, NJ 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NJ · Middletown

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 21 employers in Middletown, NJ · 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 #4387 AUSTIN, TX 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1507 BRUNSWICK, GA 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4469 KENNEWICK, WA 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots eCommerece, LLC 0990 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Diversified Group, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kiely Pipeline Integrity 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockborn Trucking & Excavation, Inc 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Marine Co.DE, LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDTWNJ21 2,433 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDTWNJ21 - AT&T Services, Inc. 1,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR #628 Middletown Shoprite 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1192 - Middletown 236 FTE
NAT-TCR G G Marck & Associates 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DOT Construction Corp 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Bros. Corporation, a Southland Company - 2730 Brightline Zone 4 Phase II 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Airoom Companies, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1954 Warwick, RI 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5144 North Haven, CT 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1427 14 Stewart Street 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor'D Plumbing, Inc. 26 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.