Retail Other · Pennsylvania

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA

Boyertown, PA · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA: 5.8 TCR = 172% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA safety composite

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 #5231 Boyertown, PA: 0.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.87× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA's TCR rose 11.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Boyertown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #61/88
  • PHOTO 2236
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2236 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA averages 5.8 TCR (172% 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 #5231 Boyertown, PA TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=17.9 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=11 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 88 Retail Other employers in Pennsylvania.

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA (18 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 #5231 Boyertown, PA
Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA (18 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5231 Boyertown, PA has fewer 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 11.0 11.0 1 0 0
2022 9.4 9.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 17.9 9.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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 · PA · Boyertown

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 28 employers in Boyertown, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 2236 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2952 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2020 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3266 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wheelabrator Frackville Energy Company Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welders Supply Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE K/S Renewal Systems, LLC 430 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoemaker Construction Company 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drug Plastics and Glass Co., Inc. - Boyertown, PA 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Advanced Metals 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chestnut Knoll 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Redner's Warehouse Market Boyertown 92 FTE
NAT-TCR Wyoming Beverage Casper 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Applied Solutions Group (ASG) : Wakefield-Withee 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomfield Care Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kivi Bros Trucking 5.8 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, 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.