Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Colorado

Sterling Ethanol

Sterling, CO · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Ethanol runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sterling Ethanol: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Ethanol safety composite

Sterling Ethanol scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sterling Ethanol: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3.99× in 2024

Sterling Ethanol's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2021 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Sterling, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK P92
  • PHOTO Valero Renewable Fue…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Aurora Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Ethanol in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Ethanol averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Ethanol TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Ethanol falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sterling Ethanol (30 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Ethanol
Sterling Ethanol (30 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Sterling Ethanol has fewer employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · CO · Sterling

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing 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 Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Aurora Plant 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Albert City Plant 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Riga Plant 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medina Facility 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5280 S Services LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Squared LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Service Center 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Krueger Construction Management LLC 30 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 Fighting Jays Solar 20145001 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA - Winsted 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kappen Tree Service, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Redmond 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenn, LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5033 - York 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5344 - Carrollton 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5640 - Minnetonka 30 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. 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.