Elementary and secondary schools · Illinois

Sterling High School

Sterling, IL · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling High School runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling High School: 3.6 TCR = 257% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling High School safety composite

Sterling High School scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 High School: 1.4 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Sterling High School's TCR rose 4.3 from 1.4 in 2020 to 5.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.6 · 257% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #176/312
  • PHOTO Administrative Center
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Administrative Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling High School averages 3.6 TCR (257% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling High School TCR series: 2020=1.4 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Sterling High School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #176 safest of 312 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Illinois.

Sterling High School (99 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling High School
Sterling High School (99 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Sterling High School has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 5.8 0.0 4 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Sterling

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools 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 Administrative Center 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berkeley High School 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Glenn Middle School 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRECC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Illinois Power Cooperative 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmarc Environmental Systems, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Construction Company - Illinois Region 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Fence, Inc. 99 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 Nastra Automotive 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 268337-Stp-Eagan Br 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolverine Tube, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - West Des Moines 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dairy Farm 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flavor Producers - Sharonville, OH 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Key Mechanical Kent 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merit Chevrolet 99 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. 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.