Low voltage electrical work · Maryland

ARK Systems, Inc.

Columbia, MD · ~138 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ARK Systems, Inc. runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Low voltage electrical work workplace, earning a grade D.

ARK Systems, Inc.: 3.6 TCR = 130% of Low voltage electrical work BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ARK Systems, Inc. safety composite

ARK Systems, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−3.5

2020→2024

ARK Systems, Inc. injury rate improved

ARK Systems, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.5 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Columbia, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #49/77
  • PHOTO 596 Network Corp.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 596 Network Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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ARK Systems, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ARK Systems, Inc. averages 3.6 TCR (130% of the Low voltage electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

ARK Systems, Inc. TCR series: 2020=3.5 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where ARK Systems, Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Low voltage electrical work establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 77 Low voltage electrical work employers in Maryland.

ARK Systems, Inc. (138 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ARK Systems, Inc.
ARK Systems, Inc. (138 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

ARK Systems, Inc. has more employees than the Low voltage electrical work median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.7 3.0 5 0 0
2022 5.6 2.4 7 0 0
2021 5.4 1.5 7 0 0
2020 3.5 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · MD · Columbia

4,550 Low voltage electrical work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 179 employers in Columbia, MD · 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 596 Network Corp. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Choice Electrical and Security Services LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Electric Service 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Builders Electric Corporation 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rosedale Roofing Company, Inc. 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Demolition Contracting, Inc. 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPP Cambridge - 006 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bond Distributing, LLC 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard County General Hospital 1,952 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate HQ 712 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring Inc - Columbia 586 FTE
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-2077 CORPORATE CENTER DR WEST 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 395 Webster City 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartley Oil Company, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago West 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kernersville Plant 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poly Vinyl Co. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&B Piping, Inc. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micron SIG 138 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. 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.