Retail Other · Missouri

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M

Blue Springs, MO · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M: 7.5 TCR = 222% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M safety composite

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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 #5241 Blue Springs, M: 7.7 → 15.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2018

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M's TCR rose 7.3 from 7.7 in 2016 to 15.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Blue Springs, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 222% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #28/31
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4702…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4702 El Paso, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M averages 7.5 TCR (222% 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 #5241 Blue Springs, M TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=15 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 31 Retail Other employers in Missouri.

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M (20 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 #5241 Blue Springs, M
Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M (20 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M 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
2018 15.0 7.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.7 7.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MO · Blue Springs

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 64 employers in Blue Springs, MO · 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 #4702 El Paso, TX 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1633 LOGANSPORT, IN 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4147 SANTA FE, NM 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4090 COVINA, CA 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CoverCress INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE RUCKMAN #9 - 16 & 27 -EST 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Pig, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Health Care 538 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 184 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fike Corporation 437 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Olympic Training Center Co 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento Hub (Casac) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood Suites by Hilton Stratford 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Galleria Woods 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5242 Battle Creek, M 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victor- Branch 14 &15 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #175 LOUISVILLE, KY 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE REN549 Allgood Rome 20 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.