Nursing homes · Colorado

Sterling Living Center

Sterling, CO · ~47 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.0
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Living Center runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling Living Center: 17.0 TCR = 262% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Living Center safety composite

Sterling Living Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 Living Center: 14.0 → 17.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 38.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2021

Sterling Living Center's TCR rose 3.5 from 14.0 in 2016 to 17.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 38.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Sterling, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.0 · 262% of ind

  • DART 17.5 DART
  • RANK #231/259
  • PHOTO Bethel Health Care C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bethel Health Care Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Living Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Living Center averages 17.0 TCR (262% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Living Center TCR series: 2016=14 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=38.2 · 2021=17.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Sterling Living Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #231 safest of 259 Nursing homes employers in Colorado.

Sterling Living Center (47 employees, TCR 17.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Living Center
Sterling Living Center (47 employees, TCR 17.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Sterling Living Center has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 17.5 17.5 0 4 0
2020 38.2 38.2 5 10 0
2019 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2018 13.9 7.0 6 0 0
2017 11.3 11.3 5 0 0
2016 14.0 2.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · CO · Sterling

15,252 Nursing homes 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 Bethel Health Care Center 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eldorado Care Center DBA Avocado Post Acute 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griswold Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Memorial Nursing Home & Rehab 17.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ACA - Avery Shop/Yard 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort St Vrain Station-285 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE WLM-Limon Wind Plant 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Division Office 47 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 Bickford of Spotsylvania 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atria Glen Ellyn 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Turner Manufacturing Company Inc. 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairchild Airforce Base 17.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Downey Vendors, Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckeye Diamond Logistics - Columbus 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Echo Park FRC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanes Geo 8682 47 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.