Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, oxidation, polymerization) manufacturing · Oklahoma

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs

Sand Springs, OK · ~123 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, oxidation, polymerization) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs: 3.5 TCR = 108% of Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, oxidation, polymerization) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs safety composite

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs: 4.3 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2023

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.3 in 2021 to 4.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Sand Springs, OK ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 108% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Seymour, IN - PN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seymour, IN - PN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs averages 3.5 TCR (108% of the Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, oxidation, polymerization) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs falls in its industry

485 Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, o establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, o employers in Oklahoma.

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs (123 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs
Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs (123 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sterling Specialty Chemicals Sand Springs has more employees than the Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, oxidation, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 4.7 3.2 5 1 0
2022 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2021 4.3 3.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · OK · Sand Springs

485 Inhibitors (e.g., corrosion, oxidation, polymerization) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,320 rated employers in Oklahoma with headcount on file · 35 employers in Sand Springs, OK · 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 Seymour, IN - PN 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ametsa Packaging, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mcgean Livonia 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Industrial Specialties - Chicago, IL 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3637 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reasors #922 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warehouse 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Federal Contract Tinker Custodial DMAG 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR 838 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cust-O-Fab Specialty Services 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 838 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR OKC - Southwest Tube 233 FTE
NAT-TCR Sanderson Farms Palestine Live Haul 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Morrisville #137 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Service Agency Beverly/In Home Therapy 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bashas 015 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wesley Community Services 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cortland #178 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield, CA 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE State Mechanical 123 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.