Commercial bakeries · California

Sterling Foods

Union City, CA · ~305 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Foods runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Foods: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Foods safety composite

Sterling Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−0.6

2019→2023

Sterling Foods injury rate improved

Sterling Foods's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.7 in 2019 to 3.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Union City, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #51/139
  • PHOTO Rich Products Founta…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~305 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rich Products Fountain Inn (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Foods averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Foods TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Foods falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 139 Commercial bakeries employers in California.

Sterling Foods (305 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Foods
Sterling Foods (305 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sterling Foods has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 3.2 3.2 9 1 0
2022 4.4 3.8 8 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 16 0 0
2020 1.4 1.1 5 0 0
2019 3.7 1.6 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · CA · Union City

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 142 employers in Union City, CA · 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 Rich Products Fountain Inn 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masada Bakery 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakewise Brands, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middle East Bakery, Inc. 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fruit Packing #4 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willcox Lencioni Farm Services 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIRAMAR YARD - 1 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contra Costa Water District 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carson Consulting Corp 953 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4818-48180003-33321 DOWE AVE-WC 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis (Formerly Abaxis) 563 FTE
NAT-TCR Edith Location 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cetylite Industries, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowell Area Schools 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR E.F. Precision, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE County of Ashe 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE W Fort Lauderdale 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #20 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #75 305 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.