Home centers, building materials · Illinois

Frary Lumber - Sterling

Sterling, IL · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frary Lumber - Sterling runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade C.

Frary Lumber - Sterling: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frary Lumber - Sterling safety composite

Frary Lumber - Sterling scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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

Frary Lumber - Sterling: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Frary Lumber - Sterling's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Sterling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/215
  • PHOTO 1068 WOODLAND
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1068 WOODLAND (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frary Lumber - Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frary Lumber - Sterling averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Frary Lumber - Sterling TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Frary Lumber - Sterling falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 215 Home centers, building materia employers in Illinois.

Frary Lumber - Sterling (28 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Frary Lumber - Sterling
Frary Lumber - Sterling (28 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Frary Lumber - Sterling has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · IL · Sterling

6,309 Home centers, building materials 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 1068 WOODLAND 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3914 LAWTON 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8528 NORTH PORT 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0012 LOWE S OF LAFAYETTE IN 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 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 Monsma Marketing Corporation 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FM Hwy 160 Office 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Diversco Construction Co Inc 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Williamsburg Company 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Artistic Lighting & Electric 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowe Roofing of Wyoming LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corona depot 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roemer Utility Services, LLC 28 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. 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.