General-line scrap merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard

Sterling, IL · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line scrap merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard: 5.2 TCR = 235% of General-line scrap merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard safety composite

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard: 3.3 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.3 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 235% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/62
  • PHOTO Legend
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legend (0.0 TCR gap)

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Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard averages 5.2 TCR (235% of the General-line scrap merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard TCR series: 2022=3.3 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard falls in its industry

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wh establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 62 General-line scrap merchant wh employers in Illinois.

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard (22 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard
Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard (22 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Azcon Metals - Sterling Yard has fewer employees than the General-line scrap merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.0 1 0 0
2023 8.2 4.1 2 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IL · Sterling

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 72 employers in Sterling, IL · 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 Legend 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Paper Tigers Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ben Weitsman & Son of Albany LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRHC Freedom Metals, LLC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. 2,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR STIL 1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wahl Clipper Corporation 1,260 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7024 910 FTE
NAT-TCR ASPC-Yuma 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mold In Graphic Systems 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 393007-Millard | NE | NEB-100 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Federal Package Network, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dakota Micro, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jim Palmer Excavating Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ndx Nelson 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Landscape Inc. 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: 2024, 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.