Candles manufacturing · Iowa

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar

Saint Ansgar, IA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar: 8.8 TCR = 268% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar safety composite

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 - Saint Ansgar: 7.7 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar's TCR rose 3.1 from 7.7 in 2022 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Saint Ansgar, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 268% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Advanced Entertainme…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Entertainment Technology (0.1 TCR gap)

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Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar averages 8.8 TCR (268% 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 - Saint Ansgar TCR series: 2022=7.7 · 2023=8 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #3 safest of 4 Candles manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar (29 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 - Saint Ansgar
Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar (29 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar 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 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2023 8.0 4.0 0 2 0
2022 7.7 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · IA · Saint Ansgar

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Saint Ansgar, 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 Advanced Entertainment Technology 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield Consumer Products 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOICHER MARIN OF FLORIDA LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Petersen Resources LLC 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Absolute Energy, L.L.C. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR R. A. Wold & Sons Inc 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Plastic Products Company-Phoenix West 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond in - 3227 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Pallets Belvidere 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Healthcare Holdings LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE River Metals Recycling - Grade Lane 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalispell - FCA Horizon 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE NYSEG Norwich 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE RG&E Canandaigua 29 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.