Springs and spring units for seats, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip · Illinois

Sterling Spring LLC 54th

Chicago, IL · ~53 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Spring LLC 54th runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Springs and spring units for seats, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip workplace, earning a grade A.

Sterling Spring LLC 54th: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Springs and spring units for seats, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Spring LLC 54th safety composite

Sterling Spring LLC 54th scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−1.7

2016→2024

Sterling Spring LLC 54th injury rate improved

Sterling Spring LLC 54th's TCR fell 1.7 from 1.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/17
  • PHOTO NHK of America
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NHK of America (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sterling Spring LLC 54th in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Spring LLC 54th averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Springs and spring units for seats, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Spring LLC 54th TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Spring LLC 54th falls in its industry

189 Springs and spring units for s establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 17 Springs and spring units for s employers in Illinois.

Sterling Spring LLC 54th (53 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Spring LLC 54th
Sterling Spring LLC 54th (53 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sterling Spring LLC 54th has fewer employees than the Springs and spring units for seats, ligh median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2021 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · IL · Chicago

189 Springs and spring units for seats, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 NHK of America 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mubea Shared Services 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tokusen HyTech Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spring Dynamics, Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR HoneywellNY76 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Sc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio-West Virginia Excavating 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Louis Dreyfus Company - PW1 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1106 LKQ Melborne-106-Main Plant 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laminations East 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARM Camco 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3041 Keystone 53 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.