Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services · Indiana

Sterling Avenue

Elkhart, IN · ~312 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Avenue runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Sterling Avenue: 2.8 TCR = 133% of Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Avenue safety composite

Sterling Avenue scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2017→2021

Sterling Avenue injury rate improved

Sterling Avenue's TCR fell 1.5 from 5.3 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Elkhart, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 133% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #50/90
  • PHOTO Wiese Saint Louis
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wiese Saint Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Avenue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Avenue averages 2.8 TCR (133% of the Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Avenue TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=3.9 · BLS 2.1

Where Sterling Avenue falls in its industry

2,560 Commercial and industrial mach establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 90 Commercial and industrial mach employers in Indiana.

Sterling Avenue (312 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Avenue
Sterling Avenue (312 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Sterling Avenue has more employees than the Commercial and industrial machinery repa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021 3.9 1.3 12 0 0
2020 2.6 0.0 7 0 0
2019 1.5 0.4 4 0 0
2018 0.6 0.4 3 0 0
2017 5.3 1.8 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · IN · Elkhart

2,560 Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 Wiese Saint Louis 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPATCO Energy Solutions, LLC - Miami Branch 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Southwest LLC Reno 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fraza 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milestone AV Techonologies - DaLite Warsaw 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Life Sciences : Beckman Coulter - Indianapolis (RD) 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nemcomed FW LLC 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paragon Medical - Cases & Trays - Pierceton 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairfax County Water Authority 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Multisorb Technologies 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Packaging Specialties 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercedes Office 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE JCI Tarboro 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE SUEZ WTS USA, Inc. 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation (272-NBHP) 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Secondary Complex - Dos 312 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.