Retail Other · North Carolina

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC

Lincolnton, NC · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade B.

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC safety composite

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 #5328 Lincolnton, NC: 0.0 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 4.59× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC's TCR rose 10.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 4.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Lincolnton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #41/117
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4667…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4667 Mesa, AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC averages 2.2 TCR (66% 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 #5328 Lincolnton, NC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #41 safest of 117 Retail Other employers in North Carolina.

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC (19 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC
Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC (19 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC 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 10.2 10.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.6 0.0 0 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 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 · NC · Lincolnton

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Lincolnton, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4667 Mesa, AZ 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR eCommerce Warehouse -0990 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses 266 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4614 Payson, AZ 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR RSI Home Products 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1109-Atrium Health Lincoln (1109) 672 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Woodmark Corporation 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0050-Atrium Health Lincoln 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4667 Mesa, AZ 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FTP1 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SEA Sea-Tac Airport 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Morning star 2.2 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, 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.