Candles manufacturing · Tennessee

Paddywax, LLC Factory

Nashville, TN · ~121 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paddywax, LLC Factory runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Paddywax, LLC Factory: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paddywax, LLC Factory safety composite

Paddywax, LLC Factory scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Paddywax, LLC Factory: 5.3 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2023

Paddywax, LLC Factory's TCR rose 6.2 from 5.3 in 2019 to 11.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO ColorCoat Inc. Kinst…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ColorCoat Inc. Kinston, NC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Paddywax, LLC Factory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paddywax, LLC Factory averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Paddywax, LLC Factory TCR series: 2019=5.3 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=1 · 2023=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Paddywax, LLC Factory falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Candles manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Paddywax, LLC Factory (121 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Paddywax, LLC Factory
Paddywax, LLC Factory (121 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Paddywax, LLC Factory 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
2023 11.5 8.2 7 0 0
2022 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 5.5 2.4 6 1 0
2020 2.2 1.5 3 0 0
2019 5.3 0.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · TN · Nashville

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 ColorCoat Inc. Kinston, NC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultra PRO International, LLC. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Timeless Frames 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humble Brands, Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga Container 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE BASF Corporation 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbridge INOAC Technical Products, LLC 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR County Market #231 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lloyd Pest Control-AN 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1106 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pietro Industries Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE JVS Contracting Inc. 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maple Leaf Healthcare Center 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guardian Angels Health and Rehabilitation Center 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Valley #075 121 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, 2020, 2019. 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.