Candles manufacturing · Indiana

Antique Candle Co.

Lafayette, IN · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Antique Candle Co. runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Antique Candle Co.: 1.2 TCR = 38% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Antique Candle Co. safety composite

Antique Candle Co. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−5.0

2021→2024

Antique Candle Co. injury rate improved

Antique Candle Co.'s TCR fell 5.0 from 5.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Lafayette, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO WoodWick Manufacturing
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WoodWick Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Antique Candle Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Antique Candle Co. averages 1.2 TCR (38% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Antique Candle Co. TCR series: 2021=5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Antique Candle Co. falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Candles manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Antique Candle Co. (42 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Antique Candle Co.
Antique Candle Co. (42 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Antique Candle Co. has fewer employees than the Candles manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · IN · Lafayette

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 205 employers in Lafayette, IN · 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 WoodWick Manufacturing 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 585 Konami Circle 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PacMin Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Albany 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton Dairy LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Feather Crest Farm 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orange County REMC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-States Construction Inc. 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lafayette Operations 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabash Lafayette North 2,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnett Hospital 2,070 FTE
NAT-TCR Edwards Vacuum 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR West Hershey Plant 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Melgar Mechanical Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Landart Landscape Management 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bolyard Lumber 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seals Construction, Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chem-Aqua 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detwiler'S Farm Market, Inc. 42 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. 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.