Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Illinois

Sterling Police Department

Sterling, IL · ~41 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Police Department runs at 397% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling Police Department: 12.7 TCR = 397% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Police Department safety composite

Sterling Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Police Department: 7.3 → 24.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 25.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Sterling Police Department's TCR rose 17.0 from 7.3 in 2017 to 24.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 25.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 397% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #85/110
  • PHOTO Geneva Police Depart…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Geneva Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Police Department averages 12.7 TCR (397% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Police Department TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=10.8 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=25.7 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=15.7 · 2024=24.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Sterling Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

Sterling Police Department (41 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Police Department
Sterling Police Department (41 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sterling Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 24.3 0.0 5 4 0
2023 15.7 7.8 6 0 0
2022 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 5.1 2.6 2 0 0
2020 25.7 2.6 7 3 0
2019 10.3 5.2 4 0 0
2018 10.8 8.1 3 1 0
2017 7.3 7.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Sterling

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Geneva Police Department 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of South Elgin - Police Department 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vancouver Police Dept West 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. - Champaign Research - CMI1 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Carmel Public Utility Co. 41 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 Corovan Moving & Storage 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR International Metal Hose Company 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2051 - Huntington Beach East 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa Nia 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Works- Facilities 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Lindsay 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | IEW Enterprise 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Pallet Corp 41 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.