Employer · Illinois

Sterling Plant

Sterling, IL · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Plant runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Sterling Plant: 1.5 TCR = 28% of industry BLS 5.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Plant safety composite

Sterling Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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 Plant: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Sterling Plant's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Sterling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/35
  • PHOTO Oerlikon Friction Sy…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oerlikon Friction Systems (US) Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Plant averages 1.5 TCR (28% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Sterling Plant falls in its industry

320 industry establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 35 industry employers in Illinois.

Sterling Plant (42 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Plant
Sterling Plant (42 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Sterling Plant has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · IL · Sterling

320 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 72 employers in Sterling, 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 Oerlikon Friction Systems (US) Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillside 3 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GKN Automotive- Alamance 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri Component Products 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Pontiac, IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-R&D 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egyptian Electric Cooperative 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. 2,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR STIL 1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wahl Clipper Corporation 1,260 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7024 910 FTE
NAT-TCR Levy Environmental Services Company - Columbia City 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HIT building 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Ordinance Distilling 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR INTEGRIS Prohealth, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stacyville Community Nursing Home 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG200 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2573-WI014 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Perspective Senior Living LLC - Eden Prairie 42 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.