Ropes (except wire rope) manufacturing · Maine

Sterling Rope

Biddeford, ME · ~69 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Rope runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ropes (except wire rope) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sterling Rope: 6.2 TCR = 188% of Ropes (except wire rope) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Rope safety composite

Sterling Rope scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.1

2018→2024

Sterling Rope injury rate improved

Sterling Rope's TCR fell 6.1 from 9.3 in 2018 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.3 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=6.7 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314994 · Biddeford, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Samson Rope
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Samson Rope (0.2 TCR gap)

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Sterling Rope in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Rope averages 6.2 TCR (188% of the Ropes (except wire rope) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Sterling Rope TCR series: 2018=9.3 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=6.7 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Rope falls in its industry

31 Ropes (except wire rope) manuf establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sterling Rope (69 employees, TCR 6.2) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Rope
Sterling Rope (69 employees, TCR 6.2) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sterling Rope has fewer employees than the Ropes (except wire rope) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2023 5.5 4.1 4 0 0
2022 9.3 8.0 7 0 0
2020 6.7 6.7 4 0 0
2019 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2018 9.3 4.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314994 · ME · Biddeford

31 Ropes (except wire rope) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 50 employers in Biddeford, ME · 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 Samson Rope 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pigeon Mountain Industries, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Tires-Aldora Mills Plant 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teufelberger Fiber Rope Corp 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Katahdin Health Care 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgewood Rehabilitation & Living Center 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aero Heating & Ventilating 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maine Wood Turning, Inc. 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMHC MaineHealth 1,565 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMHC Biddeford 1,133 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2153 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #75 305 FTE
NAT-TCR Century Center for Rehabilitation and Healing 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Loma Linda University Medical Center 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley View Villa 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartje Lumber, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branch 3736 - Landover,MD 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark of Plano 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geer Village 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rembco Geotechnical Contractors, Inc. 69 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.