Candles manufacturing · Virginia

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick

Forest, VA · ~254 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick safety composite

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick held a steady TCR band

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.0 in 2018 to 2.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.0 · 2019=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Forest, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Metalcraft, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~254 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metalcraft, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick TCR series: 2018=3 · 2019=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Candles manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick (254 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick
Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick (254 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick has more 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
2019 2.8 1.2 7 0 0
2018 3.0 2.2 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · VA · Forest

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 37 employers in Forest, VA · 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 Metalcraft, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS - Enterprise 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yoder Smokers Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield Consumer Products 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chewning and Wilmer, Inc. 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Center Metals 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samuel Pressure Vessel Group Lebanon 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Crystal City Campus (1001) 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR WoodWick Manufacturing 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentry 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanwha Azdel Inc. 192 FTE
NAT-TCR Arnold Oil Company - Location 1050 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Automotive Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI-Collinsville 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Skokie Meadows Behavioral Health Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbus (HR) 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Circle Graphics - Raleigh 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuesday Morning Corp 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE FDD SOCAL South - COI South (Alta Dena) 254 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: 2019, 2018. 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.