Retail Other · Florida

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL

Melbourne, FL · ~26 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL: 7.1 TCR = 210% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL safety composite

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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 7.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 #526 MELBOURNE, FL: 0.0 → 17.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2023

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL's TCR rose 17.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 17.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Melbourne, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 210% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #110/120
  • PHOTO Bonney Lake
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bonney Lake (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL averages 7.1 TCR (210% 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 #526 MELBOURNE, FL TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=17.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #110 safest of 120 Retail Other employers in Florida.

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL (26 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 #526 MELBOURNE, FL
Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL (26 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #526 MELBOURNE, FL 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 17.6 8.8 2 0 0
2022 7.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2020 18.4 12.3 3 0 0
2019 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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 · FL · Melbourne

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 305 employers in Melbourne, FL · 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 Bonney Lake 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Sioux Falls SD 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4277 LANCASTER, CA 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4122 VISALIA, CA 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cooperative Producers, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherrylake Inc. - VB 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAULING 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE J & J Sugar Harvesters Inc 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A458 4,719 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOLMES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nextech HVACR 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health First Medical Group 1,787 FTE
NAT-TCR Wahpeton CIH 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West Point 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TOW By Fanatics 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1750 Production Office 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4475 BEAVERTON, OR 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4266 CHICO, CA 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4604 Tempe, AZ 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4264 SANTA ANA, CA 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.