Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing · Ohio

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc.

Columbus, OH · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc.: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. safety composite

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Process Equipment & Services, Inc.: 3.1 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 3.1 in 2019 to 3.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/25
  • PHOTO Sani-Matic
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sani-Matic (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. falls in its industry

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixer establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 25 Food choppers, grinders, mixer employers in Ohio.

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc.
Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Sterling Process Equipment & Services, Inc. has fewer employees than the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and sli median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · OH · Columbus

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, 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 Sani-Matic 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gainesville Manufacturing Center 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEA Process Engineering Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The J E Grote Company, Inc. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union City Facility 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Breeder Division Field Office 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plibrico Refractories LLC - Oak Hill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanging Rock Energy Facility 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR United Mechanical Service, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SUHM Spring Works, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lan-Co Companies, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington DC 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE ERCO Worldwide Valdosta 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milliken 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE GMD Shipyard 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elementis Specialties Proctor WV 29 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.