Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Illinois

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC.

Phoenix, IL · ~247 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC.: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. safety composite

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−1.0

2016→2018

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. injury rate improved

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 3.4 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Phoenix, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Austin
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~247 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Illinois.

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. (247 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Lumber Company, LLC.
Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. (247 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sterling Lumber Company, LLC. has more employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 2.4 1.7 7 0 0
2017 2.9 2.1 7 0 0
2016 3.4 2.2 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · IL · Phoenix

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 6 employers in Phoenix, 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 Austin 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Forest Products 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Finishing - Plant 8 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Finishing - Plant 15 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Novartis Gene Therapies - Libertyville 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perfect Plastic Printing Corporation 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATF, INC. 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE SENIOR FLEXONICS 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Site Access Solutions, LLC. 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Site Access Solutions - Phoenix 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Village of Phoenix 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lion Lumber, LLC 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #707 (Albany, MO) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Reman30 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 828 - Lutz 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Care of Rutherford County, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manitou Group Madison SD 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dianne's Fine Desserts Newburyport 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Standard, East Village 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE HelloFresh CA (Distribution Center) 247 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: 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.