Retail Other · New Jersey

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ

Ocean, NJ · ~17 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ: 3.6 TCR = 105% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ safety composite

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−8.3

2016→2023

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ injury rate improved

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ's TCR fell 8.3 from 8.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Ocean, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/62
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1896…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1896 Elk Grove, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ averages 3.6 TCR (105% 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 #5319 Ocean, NJ TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 62 Retail Other employers in New Jersey.

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ (17 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 #5319 Ocean, NJ
Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ (17 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5319 Ocean, NJ 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.6 8.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.1 8.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NJ · Ocean

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 20 employers in Ocean, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1896 Elk Grove, CA 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1701 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5340 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4289 RENO, NV 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rahway, NJ 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newark Liberty Intl Airport Conrac #1911 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wohlsen Construction - New Jersey 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Durable Surfaces New Jersey 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean 463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0329 - OCEAN TOWNSHIP NJ WHSE 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1378 - Ocean Township 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Super Foodtown of Ocean Township - 269 105 FTE
NAT-TCR Virginia Rehab Center for the Blind 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR T & G Construction Inc. (Lawton) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Technologies Group (ITG) : Spartan - Plant 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1896 Elk Grove, CA 3.6 TCR

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, 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.