Retail Other · Ohio

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH

Lancaster, OH · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH: 3.1 TCR = 90% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH safety composite

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH: 0.0 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH's TCR rose 9.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 9.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Lancaster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #48/121
  • PHOTO Runnings of Redwing
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Runnings of Redwing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH averages 3.1 TCR (90% 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 #5448 Lancaster, OH TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 121 Retail Other employers in Ohio.

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH (27 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 #5448 Lancaster, OH
Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH (27 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH 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
2023 9.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · OH · Lancaster

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lancaster, OH · 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 Runnings of Redwing 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5377 Tampa, FL 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4302 CHANDLER, AZ 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses 1848 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Creque Farms Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Pond Gardens Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wen Mar Farms, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 2 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Medical Center 2,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking Plant 1 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5377 Tampa, FL 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecoservices LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Attwood Lowell 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson City- DuPont 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE International World Foods 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feldmeier Equipment NV 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micro Surface Finishing 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holmes Foods Inc. / Feedmill 27 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. 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.