Employer · Illinois

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart

Sterling, IL · ~162 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart: 8.9 TCR = 198% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart safety composite

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart: 8.3 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2018

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart's TCR rose 1.3 from 8.3 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 198% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #133/143
  • PHOTO Marion Location
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marion Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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IL-Sterling-Wal Mart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IL-Sterling-Wal Mart averages 8.9 TCR (198% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart TCR series: 2017=8.3 · 2018=9.6 · BLS 4.5

Where IL-Sterling-Wal Mart falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #133 safest of 143 industry employers in Illinois.

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart (162 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate IL-Sterling-Wal Mart
IL-Sterling-Wal Mart (162 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

IL-Sterling-Wal Mart has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 9.6 8.5 18 0 0
2017 8.3 3.6 14 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Sterling

3,252 industry 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 Marion Location 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-793 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Palm, FL 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR UCS 4812 (Dearborn - M) 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Miner Enterprises 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG CHI 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmarc Environmental Systems, LLC 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City 162 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 Legends - Anaheim Angels 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0110 - Kennesaw, Ga 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Batavia (Nybat) 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerry - Plant City FL 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wall Street 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE JFSNA at ExxonMobil Complex Baton Rouge 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drake-Williams Steel 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE BioScrip Infusion Services - Morris Plains - 2300 162 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.