Candles manufacturing · New York

Northern Lights Candles

Wellsville, NY · ~123 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Lights Candles runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Northern Lights Candles: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Lights Candles safety composite

Northern Lights Candles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−1.9

2020→2024

Northern Lights Candles injury rate improved

Northern Lights Candles's TCR fell 1.9 from 6.9 in 2020 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.9 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Wellsville, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO SAN JUAN POOLS-FL
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAN JUAN POOLS-FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Lights Candles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Lights Candles averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Lights Candles TCR series: 2020=6.9 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Northern Lights Candles falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Candles manufacturing employers in New York.

Northern Lights Candles (123 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Northern Lights Candles
Northern Lights Candles (123 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Northern Lights Candles 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 5.0 5.0 4 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 1 1 0
2022 5.3 4.6 7 0 0
2021 14.1 8.2 19 0 0
2020 6.9 4.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · NY · Wellsville

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 34 employers in Wellsville, NY · 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 SAN JUAN POOLS-FL 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aquamor, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paramold 90 Bourne 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winter Woods Inc 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - New York 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA NY Rochester Goodway 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Dare Extract Co., Inc. 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jamestown Container Corporation 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otis Eastern Service, LLC 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otis Minnesota Services, LLC 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jones Memorial Hospital 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arvos Ljungstrom LLC 311 FTE
NAT-TCR People's Food Coop 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvester Foundry 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems CASA1 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vintage Park of Oswatomie 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Petersburg Borough 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgecraft Corporation 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE StoneAge Inc. 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVW Kearneysville 123 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, 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.