Candles manufacturing · Ohio

Candle-lite, Company

Leesburg, OH · ~480 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Candle-lite, Company runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Candle-lite, Company: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Candle-lite, Company safety composite

Candle-lite, Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−2.2

2016→2024

Candle-lite, Company injury rate improved

Candle-lite, Company's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.0 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Leesburg, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO Root Candles
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~480 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Root Candles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Candle-lite, Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Candle-lite, Company averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Candle-lite, Company TCR series: 2016=3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Candle-lite, Company falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 15 Candles manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Candle-lite, Company (480 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Candle-lite, Company
Candle-lite, Company (480 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Candle-lite, Company has more 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 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2023 1.9 1.4 8 0 0
2022 1.2 0.7 5 0 0
2021 2.6 1.9 14 0 0
2020 2.9 1.6 14 0 0
2019 4.2 2.7 15 2 0
2018 2.9 1.4 10 4 0
2016 3.0 2.6 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · OH · Leesburg

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 4 employers in Leesburg, OH · 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 Root Candles 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeKalb 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knud Nielsen Company, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICE 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE OH_Cincinnati_11315 Reed Hartman Hwy_SWRDHART 480 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honeywell Intelligrated Installations 481 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alex Products, Inc, - Ridgeville Plant 481 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honeywell Aerospace - Urbana 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midmark - Leesburg 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mason Business Acquisition 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fillmore Construction LLC 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Magnetic Inspection Laboratory, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bretting Development Corporation Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunoco Transportation Texas 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Prevost - South Plainfield, NJ 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Masonite Tampa Corporate Office 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decatur 01 Chem 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&E Resources 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shell Gulf of Mexico 480 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, 2016. 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.