Retail Other · Alabama

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL

Birmingham, AL · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL safety composite

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL: 0.0 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL's TCR rose 11.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/30
  • PHOTO 209
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 209 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL averages 1.4 TCR (42% 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 #5233 Birmingham, AL TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 30 Retail Other employers in Alabama.

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL (17 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 #5233 Birmingham, AL
Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL (17 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5233 Birmingham, AL 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 11.5 0.0 1 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 0.0 0.0 0 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 · AL · Birmingham

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 209 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4347 SIMI VALLEY, CA 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1972 STILLWATER, OK 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1473 ROME, GA 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DANFORD FARMS 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covington Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Enterprise Office 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bartletts Ferry Dam 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE 294 - Village Creek WWTP Improvements 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleveland Tn Cpa 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR South Elgin 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Leggett & Platt Aeorspace - Middletown 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Thin Films 1.4 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.