Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Illinois

Sterling Facility

Sterling, IL · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Facility runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sterling Facility: 2.6 TCR = 48% of Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Facility safety composite

Sterling Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−5.2

2023→2024

Sterling Facility injury rate improved

Sterling Facility's TCR fell 5.2 from 5.2 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Sterling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/35
  • PHOTO SHARONVILLE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SHARONVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Facility averages 2.6 TCR (48% of the Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Facility TCR series: 2023=5.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 5.4

Where Sterling Facility falls in its industry

320 Differential and rear axle ass establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 35 Differential and rear axle ass employers in Illinois.

Sterling Facility (56 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 Sterling Facility
Sterling Facility (56 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Sterling Facility has fewer employees than the Differential and rear axle assemblies, a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 5.2 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · IL · Sterling

320 Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing 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 SHARONVILLE 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Federal Mogul Blacksburg 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pottstown Plant 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelsey-Hayes Company-Garrett 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulk Power Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 73G - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaumburg Reporting Center 56 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 Barkley Company of Arizona 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 63-Usf-Olf Newport News 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwood Health Systems 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West Hernando Office 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Dickinson 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.H.R. Construction, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE New England Yankee Construction, LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Independence East 56 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.