Retail Other · District of Columbia

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC

Name: Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Washington, DC · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC: 6.2 TCR = 181% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC safety composite

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC held a steady TCR band

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.2 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.2 · 2017=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Washington, DC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 181% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK P22
PHOTO Big Lots Store #548 …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #548 LEESBURG, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC averages 6.2 TCR (181% of the Retail Other BLS benchmark).

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=6.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC (26 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5253 Washington, DC 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
2017	6.1	0.0	1	0	0
2016	6.2	6.2	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · DC · Washington

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 793 rated employers in District of Columbia with headcount on file · 748 employers in Washington, DC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Big Lots Store #548 LEESBURG, FL	LEESBURG, FL	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Big Lots Store #1628 PLANTATION, FL	PLANTATION, FL	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Big Lots Store #5103 Baltimore, MD	BALTIMORE, MD	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GTM Discount Store Santee	SANTEE, CA	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Meridian on First II	WASHINGTON	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Aviation Systems : DC, Washington - 600 Maryland Ave., S.W. (AS-MN)	WASHINGTON	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Washington, D.C.	WASHINGTON	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Goldbelt Hawk - DC	WASHINGTON	26 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Children's National Medical Center	Washington	7,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Medstar Washington Hospital Center	Washington	7,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Medstar Georgetown University Hospital	Washington	4,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Customs and Border Protection - Headquarters	Washington	3,601 FTE
NAT-TCR	Alexandria (Laale)	Alexandria, LA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Schwenk	Shippensburg, PA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cstk Kc	Kansas City, KS	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vibra Hospital of Fort Wayne, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Fort Wayne	Fort Wayne, IN	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	0765 - Roseburg, or	Roseburg, OR	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0391 - Avondale, Az	Avondale, AZ	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0215 - Philadelphia, Pa	Philadelphia, PA	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0213 - Jacksonville West, Fl	Jacksonville, FL	26 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: 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.