Candles manufacturing · Kansas

Empire Candle Co LLC

Kansas City, KS · ~242 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Candle Co LLC runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Empire Candle Co LLC: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Candle Co LLC safety composite

Empire Candle Co LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−1.9

2018→2024

Empire Candle Co LLC injury rate improved

Empire Candle Co LLC's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.1 in 2018 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.1 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Kansas City, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK P57
  • PHOTO Phillips-Medisize, L…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phillips-Medisize, LLC - St. Croix Meadows (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Candle Co LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Candle Co LLC averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Candle Co LLC TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Empire Candle Co LLC falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Empire Candle Co LLC (242 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Empire Candle Co LLC
Empire Candle Co LLC (242 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Empire Candle Co LLC 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 1.2 1.2 3 0 0
2023 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2022 2.3 1.9 6 0 0
2021 6.2 5.0 10 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · KS · Kansas City

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas City, KS · 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 Phillips-Medisize, LLC - St. Croix Meadows 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lucky Line Products, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6601 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTM Recognition OKC 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - WKS1 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martin Training & Staffing Solutions 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE RedGuard - All Locations 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City STC 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Al's Window Cleaning, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrow Exterminators 1105 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrow Stage Lines - Phoenix 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fosbel Wahl 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meridian Village 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollingsworth Pennsylvania Road 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE ROE Dental Laboratory, INC 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - STL6 242 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, 2018. 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.