Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing · Virginia

SOFIE - Sterling

Sterling, VA · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SOFIE - Sterling runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

SOFIE - Sterling: 8.6 TCR = 259% of Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SOFIE - Sterling safety composite

SOFIE - Sterling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−10.5

2023→2024

SOFIE - Sterling injury rate improved

SOFIE - Sterling's TCR fell 10.5 from 13.8 in 2023 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.8 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · Sterling, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 259% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO MeriCal BDO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MeriCal BDO (0.1 TCR gap)

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SOFIE - Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SOFIE - Sterling averages 8.6 TCR (259% of the Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SOFIE - Sterling TCR series: 2023=13.8 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where SOFIE - Sterling falls in its industry

855 Pharmaceutical preparations ma establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Pharmaceutical preparations ma employers in Virginia.

SOFIE - Sterling (28 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SOFIE - Sterling
SOFIE - Sterling (28 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

SOFIE - Sterling has fewer employees than the Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2023 13.8 13.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · VA · Sterling

855 Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing 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 MeriCal BDO 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Takeda Van Nuys Site 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Pharmacy 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ideal Building 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WDC Greenhouse LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobjack Nurseries, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Stonewall, LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE CREDIT UNION OPERATIONS - BOULDERS 28 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 Antonine Village 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomson & Thomson Inc 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PHILLIPSBURG 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Memorial Hospital Corporation (MEM) 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE M & M Woodworking inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Constructors Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Village 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 024 Teutopolis IL 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. 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.