Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills · Illinois

Sterling Steel Company, LLC

Name: Sterling Steel Company, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Sterling, IL · ~282 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Sterling Steel Company, LLC runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Steel Company, LLC: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Steel Company, LLC safety composite

Sterling Steel Company, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.1

2021→2023

Sterling Steel Company, LLC injury rate improved

Sterling Steel Company, LLC's TCR fell 2.1 from 4.8 in 2021 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.8 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #18/28
PHOTO Gerdau Ameristeel US…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 21 inj
SIZE ~282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. - St. Paul Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.8
This site

3.7
Gerdau Amerist

3.7
Herman Grant C

3.7
Searing Indust

3.7

What this shows Sterling Steel Company, LLC averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

Sterling Steel Company, LLC TCR series: 2021=4.8 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Sterling Steel Company, LLC falls in its industry

416 Bars, steel, made in iron and establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 28 Bars, steel, made in iron and employers in Illinois.

Sterling Steel Company, LLC (282 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Sterling Steel Company, LLC has more employees than the Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mill 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
2023	2.7	1.9	7	0	0
2021	4.8	1.4	14	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Sterling

416 Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 72 employers in Sterling, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. - St. Paul Mill	ST. PAUL, MN	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Herman Grant Company	CHATTANOOGA, TN	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alton Steel	ALTON, IL	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Searing Industries	RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bagcraft - Chicago	CHICAGO	282 FTE
STATE-SIZE	531-00539	CHICAGO	282 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1596	BOLINGBROOK	282 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Willow Primary School	PEKIN	282 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HALO Branded Solutions, Inc.	Sterling	2,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	STIL	Sterling	1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wahl Clipper Corporation	Sterling	1,260 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 7024	Sterling	910 FTE
NAT-TCR	Campus - Chapel	Portland, OR	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Southwest Health EMS	Platteville, WI	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Environmental Projects, Inc.	Auburn, ME	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mannix Family Market @ Veterans Road LLC	Staten Island, NY	3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hiawatha Homes	Rochester, MN	282 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Home and Community Options, Inc.	Winona, MN	282 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Caswell County Local Government	Yanceyville, NC	282 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Njgou - Gould Ave	Newark, NJ	282 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.