Hardware stores · Colorado

Big R of Lamar, Inc.

Lamar, CO · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big R of Lamar, Inc. runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Big R of Lamar, Inc.: 5.8 TCR = 171% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big R of Lamar, Inc. safety composite

Big R of Lamar, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 R of Lamar, Inc.: 0.0 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.17× in 2024

Big R of Lamar, Inc.'s TCR rose 12.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 12.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444140 · Lamar, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #8/21
  • PHOTO Store 6
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 6 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Big R of Lamar, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big R of Lamar, Inc. averages 5.8 TCR (171% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Big R of Lamar, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Big R of Lamar, Inc. falls in its industry

90 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 21 Hardware stores employers in Colorado.

Big R of Lamar, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Big R of Lamar, Inc.
Big R of Lamar, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Big R of Lamar, Inc. has fewer employees than the Hardware stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 12.6 12.6 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 16.5 16.5 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444140 · CO · Lamar

90 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 15 employers in Lamar, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Store 6 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 4 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big R of Monument, LLC. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big R of Springfield, LLC. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wheeler Farms, LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bully's Farms, LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montrose 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE RowCal Construction & Maintenance CO LLC 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prowers Medical Center 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2672 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2672 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dragon Products Lamar 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 702 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Place Anaheim 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FyterTech Nonwovens, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross Co Construction 5.8 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017. 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.