Highway Street and Bridge Construction · Colorado

Sterling

Sterling, CO · ~66 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Highway Street and Bridge Construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Sterling: 4.3 TCR = 152% of Highway Street and Bridge Construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling safety composite

Sterling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Sterling: 0.0 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Sterling's TCR rose 7.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Sterling, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 152% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #60/85
  • PHOTO Quality Concrete
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quality Concrete (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling averages 4.3 TCR (152% of the Highway Street and Bridge Construction BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=3 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=3 · 2022=5 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Sterling falls in its industry

4,078 Highway Street and Bridge Cons establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 85 Highway Street and Bridge Cons employers in Colorado.

Sterling (66 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling
Sterling (66 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Sterling has fewer employees than the Highway Street and Bridge Construction 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
2024 7.2 5.4 4 0 0
2023 5.1 3.4 3 0 0
2022 5.0 3.4 3 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2020 6.6 6.6 5 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2018 5.4 4.1 4 0 0
2017 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · CO · Sterling

4,078 Highway Street and Bridge Construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 29 employers in Sterling, CO · 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 Quality Concrete 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kokosing Alberici, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montrose Construction 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sam Rayburn Tollway East 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Velocity Constructors Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4112 Kodiak Court Fredrick, CO 80504 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA CO Colorado Springs 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 924 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR 924 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nichols Tillage Tools 131 FTE
NAT-TCR Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Rochester, NY 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #24 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New York New York Hotel and Casino 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Cable - Construction 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delaware Court Healthcare Center 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus PDC 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drug Plastics and Glass Co., Inc. - Kittanning, PA 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moffat Pipe, Inc. 66 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.