Candles manufacturing · California

Modern Candles Co Inc

Sylmar, CA · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Modern Candles Co Inc runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Modern Candles Co Inc: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Modern Candles Co Inc safety composite

Modern Candles Co Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−4.7

2021→2023

Modern Candles Co Inc injury rate improved

Modern Candles Co Inc's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.7 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Sylmar, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/25
  • PHOTO Smartplay Internatio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smartplay International Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Modern Candles Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Modern Candles Co Inc averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Modern Candles Co Inc TCR series: 2021=4.7 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Modern Candles Co Inc falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 25 Candles manufacturing employers in California.

Modern Candles Co Inc (47 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Modern Candles Co Inc
Modern Candles Co Inc (47 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Modern Candles Co Inc has fewer 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2021 4.7 4.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · CA · Sylmar

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 112 employers in Sylmar, CA · 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 Smartplay International Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOA Brands America, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookings 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MainStage Theatrical Supply 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company,Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olive View-UCLA Medical Center 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRM Sylmar CA 1,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 405 1,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Sylmar 1,270 FTE
NAT-TCR PVS Transportation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR premier truck group of ardmore 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vitalant AZ Scottsdale 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4482 - Ryder Intergated Logistics 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlantic track Richmond IL 60071 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goldenrod Manor 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norwesco - St. Bonifacius 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluestem Arkansas LLC 47 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.