Discount Department Stores · Virginia

1009 - Sterling

Sterling, VA · ~188 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1009 - Sterling runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1009 - Sterling: 6.4 TCR = 187% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1009 - Sterling safety composite

1009 - Sterling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

1009 - Sterling: 2.9 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

1009 - Sterling's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.9 in 2019 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Sterling, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 187% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #102/130
  • PHOTO WM 1084
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 1084 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1009 - Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1009 - Sterling averages 6.4 TCR (187% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1009 - Sterling TCR series: 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 1009 - Sterling falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #102 safest of 130 Discount Department Stores employers in Virginia.

1009 - Sterling (188 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1009 - Sterling
1009 - Sterling (188 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1009 - Sterling has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.1 3.1 4 0 0
2023 4.3 3.2 4 0 0
2022 9.6 9.6 2 8 0
2021 14.4 7.2 2 14 0
2020 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2019 2.9 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · VA · Sterling

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 222 employers in Sterling, VA · 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 WM 1084 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shopko Store #102 (Marinette, WI) 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2201 - Ross Township 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2124 - Philadelphia City Ave 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ashland 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Systems I&S - Chesapeake 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2017 - Dumfries 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1047 - Virginia Beach East 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDC4 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Dulles 007 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prospect Waterproofing Company 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2038 421 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops Unlimited Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascade Petroleum Transportation 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mauser Packaging LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1033 - Baldwin Park 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1126 - Murfreesboro 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1260 - Stroudsburg 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1355 - Lacey 188 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.