Retail Other · Maryland

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD

Bowie, MD · ~23 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD: 1.1 TCR = 31% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD safety composite

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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 #5228 Bowie, MD held a steady TCR band

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Bowie, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/48
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1947…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1947 RALEIGH, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD averages 1.1 TCR (31% 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 #5228 Bowie, MD TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 48 Retail Other employers in Maryland.

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD (23 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 #5228 Bowie, MD
Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD (23 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5228 Bowie, MD 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.5 7.5 1 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 · MD · Bowie

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 64 employers in Bowie, MD · 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 #1947 RALEIGH, NC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5152 Lake City, FL 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #419 WARREN, MI 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1685 QUINCY, IL 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrica Business Solutions - Solar 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forestville Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transportation Building 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fairmont (Cheval Condominium) 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Solutions LLC 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR The MIL Corporation 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1893 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1893 254 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5152 Lake City, FL 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BW Elliott Manufacturing 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Theradynamics Rehab Management LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Moore Nanotechnology Systems 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4657 Murray, UT 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1648 SOUTHHAVEN, MS 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #454 TOLEDO, OH 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Stores #5368 Williamsburg, VA 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. 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.