Handtools, power-driven, repair and maintenance services retailing new power-driven handtools · Indiana

Sterling Industries

Columbus, IN · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Industries runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Handtools, power-driven, repair and maintenance services retailing new power-driven handtools workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Industries: 3.5 TCR = 104% of Handtools, power-driven, repair and maintenance services retailing new power-driven handtools BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Industries safety composite

Sterling Industries scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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 Industries: 2.5 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2022

Sterling Industries's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.5 in 2021 to 4.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Columbus, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 104% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO JACKSONVILLE, TX #03…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JACKSONVILLE, TX #03228 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Industries averages 3.5 TCR (104% of the Handtools, power-driven, repair and maintenance services retailing new power-driven handtools BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Industries TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Sterling Industries falls in its industry

1,493 Handtools, power-driven, repai establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Handtools, power-driven, repai employers in Indiana.

Sterling Industries (84 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Industries
Sterling Industries (84 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Sterling Industries has more employees than the Handtools, power-driven, repair and main median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2022 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · IN · Columbus

1,493 Handtools, power-driven, repair and maintenance services retailing new power-driven handtools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 141 employers in Columbus, IN · 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 JACKSONVILLE, TX #03228 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DOUGLASVILLE, GA #00350 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McLendon's Hardware 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MACS Sioux Falls 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gaff line service 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gariup Construction Co., Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Plumbing & Heating of Bunker Hill, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE A. Hattersley & Sons, Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Material Handling, Inc. 1,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR NTN Driveshaft Inc. 1,756 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Engine Plant 1,335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Commons Office Building 1,248 FTE
NAT-TCR HG193 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FSM-ODFL 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 449 - Duluth-GA 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Schoeneman's Sioux Falls 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE West St Paul ISD #197-Moreland Elementary 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trident - Marinette 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE State Metal Industries, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACBL - Cairo 84 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.