Employer · Maryland

C054 Candlewood

Hanover, MD · ~36 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C054 Candlewood runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

C054 Candlewood: 6.2 TCR = 282% of industry BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C054 Candlewood safety composite

C054 Candlewood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Rising injury rate

C054 Candlewood: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

C054 Candlewood's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Hanover, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 282% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #15/23
  • PHOTO Pet Food Experts Inc…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pet Food Experts Inc - Denver Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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C054 Candlewood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C054 Candlewood averages 6.2 TCR (282% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

C054 Candlewood TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=13.6 · 2019=9.9 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 2.2

Where C054 Candlewood falls in its industry

1,278 industry establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 23 industry employers in Maryland.

C054 Candlewood (36 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate C054 Candlewood
C054 Candlewood (36 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

C054 Candlewood has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 6.7 6.7 4 0 0
2023 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2022 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2021 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2020 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2019 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2018 13.6 13.6 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · MD · Hanover

1,278 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 121 employers in Hanover, 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 Pet Food Experts Inc - Denver Co 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BUSA - Atlanta- Dist 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Warehousing and Storage 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Coffee - Jackson Sales 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ForwardGro, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gibraltar Construction Co., Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE BOB BREEDING GENERAL CONTRACTORS, LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR PPE Casino Resorts Maryland d/b/a Live! Casino & Hotel 2,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keller North America Inc. 2,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ciena - Remote workers 1,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR PEAPOD HANOVER WAREHOUSE 1,556 FTE
NAT-TCR Oberlin 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carmel Building & Design Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Guadalupe Regional Medical Center 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BBL Construction, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Albany Community Pool 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solvay Hospice House 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.G. & G. Inc./ Vieste Rosa 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branagh Inc 36 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.