Retail Other · South Carolina

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC

Chester, SC · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC runs at 286% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Other workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC: 9.7 TCR = 286% of Retail Other BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC safety composite

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 #5480 Chester, SC: 0.0 → 19.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC's TCR rose 19.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 19.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Chester, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 286% of ind

  • DART 19.4 DART
  • RANK #47/47
  • PHOTO 319 East Haven CT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 319 East Haven CT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC averages 9.7 TCR (286% 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 #5480 Chester, SC TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=19.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC falls in its industry

2,120 Retail Other establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 47 Retail Other employers in South Carolina.

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC (31 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 #5480 Chester, SC
Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC (31 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Big Lots Store #5480 Chester, SC has more 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 19.4 19.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · SC · Chester

2,120 Retail Other employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, SC · 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 319 East Haven CT 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Panorama City 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5305 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2054 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE SC Operations 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Little River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenWood, Inc. - GE Gas Turbine 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Wastewater Treatment Plant 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Treeland TFBB 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Thornton, Co #00498 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinch River Casting, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OrePac Building Products - Tacoma 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4687 Bay Store, NY 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4328 TORRANCE, CA 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE T169 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE NurseCore of Ft Worth 31 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.