Retail Other · Georgia

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA

Waynesboro, GA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA: 5.7 TCR = 168% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA safety composite

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 #5473 Waynesboro, GA: 0.0 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA's TCR rose 11.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 11.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Waynesboro, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #59/69
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1012…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1012 COLUMBIA, SC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA averages 5.7 TCR (168% 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 #5473 Waynesboro, GA TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=11.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 69 Retail Other employers in Georgia.

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA (22 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 #5473 Waynesboro, GA
Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA (22 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5473 Waynesboro, GA 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 11.4 11.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · GA · Waynesboro

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 27 employers in Waynesboro, GA · 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 #1012 COLUMBIA, SC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4301 WATSONVILLE, CA 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1364 Folsom, CA 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1794 Cortland, NY 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Little Creek Ag LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jason Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Algae Energy Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE DIRT MOVERS 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Waynesboro Plant 4,335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waynesboro Concrete 4,205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond County Constructors, LLC 4,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vogtle 3 & 4 1,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1012 COLUMBIA, SC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kadant Unaflex, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4301 WATSONVILLE, CA 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1364 Folsom, CA 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Stores #4537 Oroville, CA 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #801 MEADVILLE, PA 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #541 FT. MYERS, FL 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4458 FARMINGTON, NM 22 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. 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.