Retail Other · Connecticut

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C

New Milford, CT · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C: 4.0 TCR = 118% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C safety composite

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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 #5245 New Millford, C: 7.9 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C's TCR rose 0.4 from 7.9 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · New Milford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 118% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/58
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5192…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5192 Potsdam, NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C averages 4.0 TCR (118% 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 #5245 New Millford, C TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=8.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 58 Retail Other employers in Connecticut.

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C (20 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 #5245 New Millford, C
Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C (20 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5245 New Millford, C 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
2019 8.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.9 7.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CT · New Milford

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 45 employers in New Milford, CT · 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 #5192 Potsdam, NY 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4539 Atascadero, CA 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Rural King Supply 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1452 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Voluntown 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Newtown Gas 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water & Sewer - Spring Street 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middletown Water Department 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford Day Program 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kimberly Clark 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kimberly-Clark Corporation 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford Hospital 239 FTE
NAT-TCR Primetals Technologies USA LLC Milan 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Water and Sewer 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GSG Scovill 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KWF GA Alpharetta HomeStore 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caraustar Tacoma PAB Plant 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4360 CHINO HILLS, CA 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #333 FLORENCE, AL 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #32 KETTERING, OH 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: 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.