Candles manufacturing · Massachusetts

Kringle Candle Company

Bernardston, MA · ~50 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kringle Candle Company runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kringle Candle Company: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kringle Candle Company safety composite

Kringle Candle Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−9.6

2020→2024

Kringle Candle Company injury rate improved

Kringle Candle Company's TCR fell 9.6 from 12.8 in 2020 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.8 · 2021=7.7 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Bernardston, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Syndaver EDU
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Syndaver EDU (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kringle Candle Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kringle Candle Company averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kringle Candle Company TCR series: 2020=12.8 · 2021=7.7 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kringle Candle Company falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 14 Candles manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Kringle Candle Company (50 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Kringle Candle Company
Kringle Candle Company (50 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kringle Candle Company has fewer employees than the Candles manufacturing median and a higher 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 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2021 7.7 7.7 5 0 0
2020 12.8 10.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · MA · Bernardston

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 3 employers in Bernardston, MA · 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 Syndaver EDU 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SteelCell of North America 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SS-Manufacturing 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ColorCoat Inc. Milton, PA 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bountiful Farms Cultivation 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Franklin 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allegrone Construction Co., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acella 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Bernardston 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Concrete & Construction 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Tierra Rose Care Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilbert 10131 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Enable Utah 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Street 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amanzi Marble & Granite 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bridge at Cherry Hill 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sugarland 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Improvement Company LLC 50 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, 2021, 2020. 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.