Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Illinois

Sterling Multi Products

Prophetstown, IL · ~44 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Multi Products runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling Multi Products: 8.6 TCR = 262% of Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Multi Products safety composite

Sterling Multi Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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 Multi Products: 4.6 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Sterling Multi Products's TCR rose 1.4 from 4.6 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Prophetstown, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 262% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #15/19
  • PHOTO Lehigh Heavy forge C…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lehigh Heavy forge Corp (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sterling Multi Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Multi Products averages 8.6 TCR (262% of the Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Multi Products TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=9.5 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Multi Products falls in its industry

241 Press forgings made from purch establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 19 Press forgings made from purch employers in Illinois.

Sterling Multi Products (44 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Multi Products
Sterling Multi Products (44 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Sterling Multi Products has fewer employees than the Press forgings made from purchased iron median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2024 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2023 8.5 6.8 5 0 0
2022 6.4 2.1 2 1 0
2021 9.3 2.3 4 0 0
2020 9.5 7.1 1 3 0
2019 14.8 10.6 7 0 0
2018 11.6 11.6 4 0 0
2017 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2016 4.6 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · IL · Prophetstown

241 Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 7 employers in Prophetstown, 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 Lehigh Heavy forge Corp 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Forge Tennessee LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tekfor, Inc 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2570-Thomasboro, IL (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative Paxton Headquarters 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Elec. Coop. Paxton Heaquarters 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winning Wheels, Inc. 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allure of Prophetstown 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis III Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.T.R.I.V.E. 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Engineer and Secondary Roads 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Drug Plastics and Glass Co., Inc. - Kittanning, PA 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 149 Punta Gorda 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Headquarters 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schertz TX Yard 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gainesville GA Yard 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aladdin Construction Co., Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granite Falls Energy, LLC 44 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.