Steel mills · Illinois

Sterling Steel Company

Stetrling, IL · ~280 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sterling Steel Company runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Steel Company: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Steel Company safety composite

Sterling Steel Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 49% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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→2020

Sterling Steel Company injury rate improved

Sterling Steel Company's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.5 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=3.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Stetrling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #15/28
  • PHOTO Felman Productions LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Felman Productions LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Steel Company averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Steel Company TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=3.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Steel Company falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 28 Steel mills employers in Illinois.

Sterling Steel Company (280 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Steel Company
Sterling Steel Company (280 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Sterling Steel Company has more employees than the Steel mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2020 2.8 1.1 8 0 0
2019 2.3 1.0 7 0 1
2017 3.2 1.3 10 0 0
2016 4.5 2.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Stetrling

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Felman Productions LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edro Specialty Steel Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beaver Steel Services, Inc 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Ventures, Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DWM-39th and Iron Central Dispatch New Construction | 1424 W. Pershing Rd. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - Department of Water Management - 4900 W Sunnyside Ave 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stark Excavating Inc. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Source One Events 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Ambulance Service Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LECOM Erie 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Dulles Town Center 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri Tech Construction 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michigan Cat Novi 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automatic Spring Products Corp. - Taylor 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaPorte Physician Network 280 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.