Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel · Ohio

Sterling pipe and tube

Toledo, OH · ~137 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling pipe and tube runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling pipe and tube: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling pipe and tube safety composite

Sterling pipe and tube scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 pipe and tube: 7.9 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Sterling pipe and tube's TCR rose 0.8 from 7.9 in 2023 to 8.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Toledo, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #26/34
  • PHOTO Atlas Kansas City
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Kansas City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling pipe and tube in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling pipe and tube averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling pipe and tube TCR series: 2023=7.9 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling pipe and tube falls in its industry

329 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, loc establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 34 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, loc employers in Ohio.

Sterling pipe and tube (137 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling pipe and tube
Sterling pipe and tube (137 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Sterling pipe and tube has more employees than the Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 8.8 7.9 8 2 0
2023 7.9 7.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · OH · Toledo

329 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 551 employers in Toledo, OH · 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 Atlas Kansas City 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanna Fairfield 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Tube - Plymouth 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSS STEEL TUBES USA 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Miami Fort LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3040 McKinley Ave 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wells Brothers, Inc. 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAYERS ELECTRIC CO., INC. 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toledo Assembly Complex 5,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Toledo Hospital 5,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toledo Hospital 4,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Promedica Downtown Headquarters 3,308 FTE
NAT-TCR BBN Label and screen 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Metal Fabricators Inc 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BBC Fasteners, LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabay - Bay Center 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sparks, NV 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE JETT Gaming, LLC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brenk Brothers Inc. 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duvel Moortgat USA 137 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. 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.