Retail Other · Alabama

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL

Hooever, AL · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade B.

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL safety composite

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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 #5374 Hoover, AL: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2020

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Hooever, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #14/30
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #516 …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #516 CRYSTAL RIVER, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL averages 2.4 TCR (71% 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 #5374 Hoover, AL TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 30 Retail Other employers in Alabama.

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL (25 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 #5374 Hoover, AL
Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL (25 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5374 Hoover, AL has more 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
2020 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · AL · Hooever

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 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 Big Lots Store #516 CRYSTAL RIVER, FL 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1166 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orchidland General Store 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #563 ORMOND BEACH, FL 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin Electric Cooperattive 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE NextGen Industrial, LLC. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tutwiler Residence Hall 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE 250 25 FTE
NAT-TCR 130 East 77th Street 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Beloit 005 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2439 - Palm Beach 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 594 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4196 IRVINE, TX 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Stores #4665 Hanford, CA 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5199 Baltimore, MD 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mark Wright Construction INC 25 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.