Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers · California

Sterling Pacific Meat Company

Commerce, CA · ~226 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Pacific Meat Company runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sterling Pacific Meat Company: 4.1 TCR = 185% of Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Pacific Meat Company safety composite

Sterling Pacific Meat Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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 Pacific Meat Company: 3.4 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Sterling Pacific Meat Company's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.4 in 2018 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Commerce, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #8/22
  • PHOTO FL-ORLAN04-Orlando -…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FL-ORLAN04-Orlando - FL - Halperns (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Pacific Meat Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Pacific Meat Company averages 4.1 TCR (185% of the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Pacific Meat Company TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=8.6 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Sterling Pacific Meat Company falls in its industry

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 22 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa employers in California.

Sterling Pacific Meat Company (226 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Pacific Meat Company
Sterling Pacific Meat Company (226 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sterling Pacific Meat Company has more employees than the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 3.9 1.9 8 0 0
2023 2.6 1.3 6 0 0
2022 1.9 1.0 4 0 0
2021 5.8 5.8 12 0 0
2020 8.6 0.0 18 0 0
2019 2.4 0.0 5 0 0
2018 3.4 1.0 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · CA · Commerce

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 163 employers in Commerce, CA · 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 FL-ORLAN04-Orlando - FL - Halperns 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scarianos - Hammond 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA-ATLAN01-Atlanta - GA - Halperns 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quirch Foods - Atlanta 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bayview Vineyards, INC 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Family Tree Farms Inc. 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grower Direct Nut Company 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vinculums Services LLC 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferguson Complex 2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 587 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCAM, LLC 1,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA3 771 FTE
NAT-TCR DC Warehouse 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan City 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 166-Westin Atlanta Airport 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TEAM Industries 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Council Bluffs Prepared 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scotch Plywood Company Fulton Division 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ducommun New York 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Coral Gables 226 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.