Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC

Fuquay Varina, NC · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC: 6.0 TCR = 176% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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, NC: 0.0 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC's TCR rose 9.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 9.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Fuquay Varina, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 176% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #98/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4528…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4528 Portland, OR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC 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, NC averages 6.0 TCR (176% 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, NC TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 3.4

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

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #98 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC (24 employees, TCR 6.0) 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, NC
Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay Variina, NC (24 employees, TCR 6.0) 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, NC has more 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 9.6 9.6 1 0 0
2022 8.3 8.3 1 0 0
2021 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 · 26 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 #4528 Portland, OR 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1448 ALLENTOWN, PA 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davis Monthan AFB-BSC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1154 NEW BRAUNFELS, TX 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Charlotte 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Farms, Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL LNM-EST 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Turf Care 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2836 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2836 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100 FUQUAY CORPORATE OFFICE 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Mondelez Orlando 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Manor Nursing Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WTI Tuscaloosa 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Environmental Landscape Development, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1607 POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1141 BLOOMSBURG, PA 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5175 Reisterstown, MD 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1377 Middletown, NY 24 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. 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.