Candles manufacturing · Tennessee

Paddywax,LLC

Nashville, TN · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paddywax,LLC runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Paddywax,LLC: 10.0 TCR = 303% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paddywax,LLC safety composite

Paddywax,LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−8.0

2017→2018

Paddywax,LLC injury rate improved

Paddywax,LLC's TCR fell 8.0 from 14.0 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.0 · 2018=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 303% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO MILLWIRE LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MILLWIRE LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Paddywax,LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paddywax,LLC averages 10.0 TCR (303% 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 TCR series: 2017=14 · 2018=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Paddywax,LLC falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #7 safest of 7 Candles manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Paddywax,LLC (50 employees, TCR 10.0) 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
Paddywax,LLC (50 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Paddywax,LLC 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
2018 6.0 4.0 3 0 0
2017 14.0 6.0 4 3 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 MILLWIRE LLC 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Paw, Inc. 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAN JUAN POOLS 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis Greenhouse 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winchester Utility System 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. R. Newman & Associates, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&C Construction 50 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 Tuscaloosa (Altus) 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Poughkeepsie (Nypou) 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR golden memories transportation 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR B-X Brighton LLC 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CarePoint Partners - 2452 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blytheville (Arbly) 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Precast Industries 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottawa (Ksott) 50 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: 2018, 2017. 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.