Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing · Illinois

Ark Technologies

St. Charles, IL · ~53 workers · 7 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

Ark Technologies runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ark Technologies: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ark Technologies safety composite

Ark Technologies scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−5.7

2017→2024

Ark Technologies injury rate improved

Ark Technologies's TCR fell 5.7 from 7.3 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.3 · 2018=12.5 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · St. Charles, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Baumann Springs GP
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baumann Springs GP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ark Technologies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ark Technologies averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ark Technologies TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=12.5 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ark Technologies falls in its industry

189 Coiled springs (except clock, establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #10 safest of 17 Coiled springs (except clock, employers in Illinois.

Ark Technologies (53 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 Ark Technologies
Ark Technologies (53 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ark Technologies has fewer employees than the Coiled springs (except clock, watch), li 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 12.5 10.7 7 0 0
2017 7.3 4.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · IL · St. Charles

189 Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, 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 Baumann Springs GP 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Spring LLC 65th 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Economy Spring 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baumann Springs FW 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Sullivan Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trale Inc. d/b/a Lees Market 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Basic Drilling Company 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheat Lake Price Cutter 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Station 94 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunset GV LLC - dba Wildfire Casino & Lanes 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walter Wells & Sons LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington DC HVC 53 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.