Mattress springs and spring units, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip · Illinois

Sterling Spring LLC 65th

Bedford Park, IL · ~84 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Spring LLC 65th runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mattress springs and spring units, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Spring LLC 65th: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Mattress springs and spring units, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Spring LLC 65th safety composite

Sterling Spring LLC 65th scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Sterling Spring LLC 65th held a steady TCR band

Sterling Spring LLC 65th's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.0 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Bedford Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO Ark Technologies
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ark Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Spring LLC 65th in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Spring LLC 65th averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Mattress springs and spring units, 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 65th TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=2 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Spring LLC 65th falls in its industry

189 Mattress springs and spring un establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #9 safest of 17 Mattress springs and spring un employers in Illinois.

Sterling Spring LLC 65th (84 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 65th
Sterling Spring LLC 65th (84 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sterling Spring LLC 65th has more employees than the Mattress springs and spring units, light 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 5.2 2.6 4 0 0
2023 6.4 3.9 5 0 0
2022 6.6 4.4 6 0 0
2021 4.4 3.3 4 0 0
2020 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.2 3.2 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2016 5.0 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · IL · Bedford Park

189 Mattress springs and spring units, light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 140 employers in Bedford Park, 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 Ark Technologies 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baumann Springs GP 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Economy Spring 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baumann Springs FW 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joliet Station 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schomburg & Schomburg Construction Incorporated 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC DE JOINT VENTURE 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Concrete Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILBED - BEDFORD PARK 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR BEDFORD PARK (ILBED) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161546-SOUTH SUBURBAN IL P&DC 834 FTE
NAT-TCR 3229 Lkq 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SFI 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Louis L. Buttermark & Sons, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Southgate Lincoln LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Commercial Metal Forming Youngstown 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvard Maintenance Inc of Oklahoma 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3387 Transwheel 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE VS Woods 84 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.