Barge building · Texas

Sterling Shipyard LLC

Port Neches, TX · ~138 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sterling Shipyard LLC runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Barge building workplace, earning a grade B.

Sterling Shipyard LLC: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Barge building BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Shipyard LLC safety composite

Sterling Shipyard LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−0.7

2020→2024

Sterling Shipyard LLC injury rate improved

Sterling Shipyard LLC's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.2 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.2 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Port Neches, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #15/27
  • PHOTO Hii - Technical Solu…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hii - Technical Solutions Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Shipyard LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Shipyard LLC averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Barge building BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Shipyard LLC TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Shipyard LLC falls in its industry

454 Barge building establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 27 Barge building employers in Texas.

Sterling Shipyard LLC (138 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Shipyard LLC
Sterling Shipyard LLC (138 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Sterling Shipyard LLC has more employees than the Barge building median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 2.5 2.1 7 0 1
2023 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 6 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · TX · Port Neches

454 Barge building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 17 employers in Port Neches, TX · 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 Hii - Technical Solutions Division 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shaver Transportation - Shop 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation Ewa Beach HI - G Ave (3331) 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goltens Miramar 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robinson Drilling of Texas 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Odessa Brigade Energy Services 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Pumping 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longview TX 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huntsman PNO 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indorama Ventures Oxides, LLC 608 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lion Elastomers - PN 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indorama Ventures Company Port Neches TX 177 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Dock Products - Atlanta 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Auer Steel & Heating Supply - WI 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Severin Hotel 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chford-Emcaz-F2 Chandler Ford 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Russellville Park 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Country Beverage 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Seabrook of Hilton Head 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Biotech 138 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. 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.