Candles merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Goose Creek Candle LLC

Liberty, KY · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Goose Creek Candle LLC runs at 353% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candles merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Goose Creek Candle LLC: 7.8 TCR = 353% of Candles merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Goose Creek Candle LLC safety composite

Goose Creek Candle LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−2.1

2022→2024

Goose Creek Candle LLC injury rate improved

Goose Creek Candle LLC's TCR fell 2.1 from 5.0 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.0 · 2023=15.5 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Liberty, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 353% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Bergen Logistics--CA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bergen Logistics--CA16012 Cerritos, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Goose Creek Candle LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Goose Creek Candle LLC averages 7.8 TCR (353% of the Candles merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Goose Creek Candle LLC TCR series: 2022=5 · 2023=15.5 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Goose Creek Candle LLC falls in its industry

301 Candles merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Goose Creek Candle LLC (94 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Goose Creek Candle LLC
Goose Creek Candle LLC (94 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Goose Creek Candle LLC has more employees than the Candles merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 2.9 0.7 4 0 0
2023 15.5 4.4 7 0 0
2022 5.0 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · KY · Liberty

301 Candles merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Liberty, KY · 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 Bergen Logistics--CA16012 Cerritos, CA 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CanSource Longmont 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boss Manufacturing Company 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keefe Michigan 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville Svc Ctr 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE WKRECC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Lousville Region 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comstock Brothers Electric - A Division of The State Group Industrial USA Limited - Kentucky 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR TARTER INDUSTRIES 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casey County Hospital 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR LP Liberty, LLC 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liberty Water Tank 51 FTE
NAT-TCR Anderson Regional Medical Center North Campus 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Walther Farms NM 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mdw-Technical Operations 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fishers in - 3171 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southview Elementary School 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE RRSC Philadelphia 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Provo 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Materion - Brewster 94 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. 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.