Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Texas

Atkinson Candy Company

Lufkin, TX · ~215 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Atkinson Candy Company runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Atkinson Candy Company: 8.5 TCR = 203% of Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Atkinson Candy Company safety composite

Atkinson Candy Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Atkinson Candy Company held a steady TCR band

Atkinson Candy Company's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.6 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.6 · 2019=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Lufkin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 203% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK P23
  • PHOTO Spangler Candy Co. (…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spangler Candy Co. (INC.) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Atkinson Candy Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Atkinson Candy Company averages 8.5 TCR (203% of the Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Atkinson Candy Company TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2019=8.5 · BLS 4.2

Where Atkinson Candy Company falls in its industry

123 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manu establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Atkinson Candy Company (215 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Atkinson Candy Company
Atkinson Candy Company (215 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Atkinson Candy Company has more employees than the Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 8.5 8.5 17 0 0
2017 8.6 7.7 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · TX · Lufkin

123 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 109 employers in Lufkin, TX · 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 Spangler Candy Co. (INC.) 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Just Born Quality Confections 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bequet Confections (2) 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenny's Candy and Confections 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc. 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkway Construction 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE GG&S Construction Company 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Civil Mechanical Inc 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim's 1,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR A Pineywoods Home Services 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center of East Tx-Lufkin 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-42150001-421501 807 FTE
NAT-TCR Chalet Skilled Nursing Facility 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Indiana ARC 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atrium Post Acute Care of Chetek 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0747 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stevens Trucking 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Mary's Hospital & Clinics 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE NBC Sports Group : NBC Sports Bay Area 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plaza West Care Center 215 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: 2019, 2017. 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.