General freight trucking, local · Nebraska

Sterling Transportation Services

Blair, NE · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Transportation Services runs at 318% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling Transportation Services: 14.3 TCR = 318% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Transportation Services safety composite

Sterling Transportation Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−12.4

2016→2022

Sterling Transportation Services injury rate improved

Sterling Transportation Services's TCR fell 12.4 from 24.7 in 2016 to 12.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 24.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=24.7 · 2017=3.7 · 2021=16.6 · 2022=12.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Blair, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 318% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #23/23
  • PHOTO LOC / CMC ( Minority…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LOC / CMC ( Minority Auto Handling ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Transportation Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Transportation Services averages 14.3 TCR (318% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Transportation Services TCR series: 2016=24.7 · 2017=3.7 · 2021=16.6 · 2022=12.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Sterling Transportation Services falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 23 General freight trucking, loca employers in Nebraska.

Sterling Transportation Services (34 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Transportation Services
Sterling Transportation Services (34 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sterling Transportation Services has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2022 12.3 12.3 3 0 0
2021 16.6 8.3 2 0 0
2017 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2016 24.7 8.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NE · Blair

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 43 employers in Blair, NE · 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 LOC / CMC ( Minority Auto Handling ) 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maverick Express Inc 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAN LEANDRO (CASLR) 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penske : 4803-00 Starbucks/San Diego, CA 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE beckenhauerconstruction 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&R Construction Co 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omaha - Sampson Construction 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Independent Roofing Company Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blair, DC 620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill - Blair 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Plains Communications 448 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0020-0022-00218 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00969 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01630 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-FLJAC6 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Ahorro Supermarket 20, LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Pointe Assisted Living Community 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Hotels Ltd - Hilton Garden Inn - Wilkes-Barre 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9123-Smf-Primeflight Aviation Services, Inc. 34 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: 2022, 2021, 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.