Plumbing and heating contractors · Maryland

Environmental Systems Associates

Columbia, MD · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Environmental Systems Associates runs at 297% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Environmental Systems Associates: 8.3 TCR = 297% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Environmental Systems Associates safety composite

Environmental Systems Associates scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−1.8

2021→2022

Environmental Systems Associates injury rate improved

Environmental Systems Associates's TCR fell 1.8 from 9.2 in 2021 to 7.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.2 · 2022=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Columbia, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 297% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #109/121
  • PHOTO Borlase Plumbing Com…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Borlase Plumbing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Environmental Systems Associates in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Environmental Systems Associates averages 8.3 TCR (297% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Environmental Systems Associates TCR series: 2021=9.2 · 2022=7.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Environmental Systems Associates falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #109 safest of 121 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Maryland.

Environmental Systems Associates (43 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Environmental Systems Associates
Environmental Systems Associates (43 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Environmental Systems Associates has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 7.4 5.0 2 1 0
2021 9.2 9.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MD · Columbia

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors 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 Borlase Plumbing Company 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEYER PLUMBING COMPANY, LTD 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Cooling & Heating 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Professional Plumbing, Inc 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beltsville Warehouse 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE CBG 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Banneker Ventures 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Coast Building Services LLC 43 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 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03775 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Shrimp 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Super 1 Foods 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixien LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG820 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE FSM-ODFL 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raba Kistner, Inc - Austin 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Wire Inc Illinois 43 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. 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.