Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina,

Fuquay-Varina, NC · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina,: 2.7 TCR = 80% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, safety composite

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 #5235 Fuquay-Variina,: 0.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2018

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina,'s TCR rose 8.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Fuquay-Varina, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 80% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #51/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5344…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5344 Pensacola, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, averages 2.7 TCR (80% 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 #5235 Fuquay-Variina, TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, (21 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 #5235 Fuquay-Variina,
Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, (21 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina, 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
2018 8.2 8.2 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 · NC · Fuquay-Varina

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 21 employers in Fuquay-Varina, NC · 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 #5344 Pensacola, FL 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5120 Clifton, NY 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1582 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #568 FT. PIERCE, FL 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timothy Yarbrough 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty NC Breeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCJA1-SEL-JASON 1' 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunburst Trout Farms 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Turf Care 599 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turf Care 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR InServ 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-00498 180 FTE
NAT-TCR MSF Electric,Inc. -North Division 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR iMARK Molding, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR O&M Boulder 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lasko Products LLC PA 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5248 Palatine Bridge 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5186 Traverse City, 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auburn- Branch 1 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4588 Rohnert Park, C 21 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: 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.