Candles manufacturing · Iowa

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton

New Hampton, IA · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton runs at 380% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton: 12.5 TCR = 380% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton safety composite

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton: 8.5 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton's TCR rose 0.8 from 8.5 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · New Hampton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 380% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO QMT Windchimes
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: QMT Windchimes (0.4 TCR gap)

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Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton averages 12.5 TCR (380% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton TCR series: 2022=8.5 · 2023=19.9 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Candles manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton (85 employees, TCR 12.5) 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 Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton
Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton (85 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton has more 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 9.3 5.8 8 0 0
2023 19.9 9.4 7 10 0
2022 8.5 6.0 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · IA · New Hampton

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in New Hampton, IA · 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 QMT Windchimes 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorcoat Inc - Pennsylvania 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Showman Fabricators, Inc. 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc. -- Toledo SPSC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4141_7899 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Northern MAPL) 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriMark Corporation 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deb El Iowa Operating LLC 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atek Metal Technologies 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hampton 132 FTE
NAT-TCR Lucky Day Logistics LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foothill Presbyterian Hospital 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold's Gym DC Metro Bailey's Crossroads 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bethco Solutions Incorporated 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Espin Express 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reno Distribution Center 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Liberty Univ Tilley Subconne 85 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.