Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing · New Jersey

Sterling Products Inc.

Passaic, NJ · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Products Inc. runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling Products Inc.: 6.8 TCR = 207% of Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Products Inc. safety composite

Sterling Products Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−15.2

2017→2019

Sterling Products Inc. injury rate improved

Sterling Products Inc.'s TCR fell 15.2 from 15.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.2 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Passaic, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 207% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Oribi Manufacturing,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oribi Manufacturing, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Products Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Products Inc. averages 6.8 TCR (207% of the Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Products Inc. TCR series: 2017=15.2 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Products Inc. falls in its industry

644 Thermoplastic resins and plast establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Thermoplastic resins and plast employers in New Jersey.

Sterling Products Inc. (20 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Products Inc.
Sterling Products Inc. (20 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Sterling Products Inc. has fewer employees than the Thermoplastic resins and plastics materi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 15.2 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · NJ · Passaic

644 Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 19 employers in Passaic, NJ · 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 Oribi Manufacturing, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quaker Color Inc 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Octal Extrusions 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Materials 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 890 Charles St 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Power Generation Facility 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sayreville Power Plant 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakewood Cogeneration 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's General Hospital 959 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery Stores 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Complete Care at Chestnut Hill 169 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-Abs 0028 2796 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewistown Hospital 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Intellicor Communications Eden Road 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PayDirt Wholesale, LLC - Dayton, Ohio 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Spencer Street - Resort 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Flagstaff 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Inlet 20 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: 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.