Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC

Salisbury, NC · ~20 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC runs at 446% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC: 15.2 TCR = 446% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−22.6

2016→2023

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC injury rate improved

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC's TCR fell 22.6 from 22.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 37.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=22.6 · 2017=22.7 · 2018=13.4 · 2019=37.2 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Salisbury, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.2 · 446% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #116/117
  • PHOTO 472 Bangor ME
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 472 Bangor ME (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC averages 15.2 TCR (446% 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 #5276 Salisbury, NC TCR series: 2016=22.6 · 2017=22.7 · 2018=13.4 · 2019=37.2 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #116 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC (20 employees, TCR 15.2) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC
Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC (20 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.7 9.7 1 0 0
2021 8.4 8.4 1 0 0
2020 7.5 7.5 1 0 0
2019 37.2 29.8 5 0 0
2018 13.4 13.4 2 0 0
2017 22.7 7.6 3 0 0
2016 22.6 22.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NC · Salisbury

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 180 employers in Salisbury, 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 472 Bangor ME 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4760 Madera, CA 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 313 Berlin CT 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Younkers 15.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSCEXC 1,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Rowan Medical Center 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rowan County Government 1,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLT1 973 FTE
NAT-TCR Buffalo 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Universal City 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HG450 15.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4490 Greeley, CO 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5246 Wilmington, DE 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1222 DAYTON, OH 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1911 GLENDALE, AZ 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.