Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Illinois

Kunes Ford of Sterling

Sterling, IL · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kunes Ford of Sterling runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade B.

Kunes Ford of Sterling: 2.3 TCR = 67% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kunes Ford of Sterling safety composite

Kunes Ford of Sterling scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2023→2024

Kunes Ford of Sterling injury rate improved

Kunes Ford of Sterling's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Sterling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/125
  • PHOTO SASL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SASL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kunes Ford of Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kunes Ford of Sterling averages 2.3 TCR (67% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Kunes Ford of Sterling TCR series: 2023=4.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Kunes Ford of Sterling falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 125 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Illinois.

Kunes Ford of Sterling (46 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kunes Ford of Sterling
Kunes Ford of Sterling (46 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Kunes Ford of Sterling has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IL · Sterling

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used 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 SASL 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zeigler Lincolnwood 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota Motor Company 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koehne Chevrolet Buick GMC Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carlyle KFC (MPF1) 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2502-Ashton, IL 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE MID AMERICA ENERGY SERVICES, INC. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Department 46 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 Carpenter Industries Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AstroTurf 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A & M Engineering Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Right Electric 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Infirmary Cancer Care 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon DSP 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Stampings Solutions, Inc. 46 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. 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.