Candles manufacturing · California

P.F. Candle Co.

Commerce, CA · ~60 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

P.F. Candle Co. runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

P.F. Candle Co.: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

P.F. Candle Co. safety composite

P.F. Candle Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

P.F. Candle Co.: 3.1 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

P.F. Candle Co.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 3.1 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Commerce, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #14/25
  • PHOTO Anchorage
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anchorage (0.0 TCR gap)

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P.F. Candle Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows P.F. Candle Co. averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

P.F. Candle Co. TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2022=6 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where P.F. Candle Co. falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #14 safest of 25 Candles manufacturing employers in California.

P.F. Candle Co. (60 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 P.F. Candle Co.
P.F. Candle Co. (60 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

P.F. Candle Co. 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
2024 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 6.0 6.0 5 0 0
2018 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · CA · Commerce

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 163 employers in Commerce, 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 Anchorage 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Wax and Candle Co, 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Larson-Juhl Ashland 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scentsy TX 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Coast Vineyards 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming Cooperative, Inc | Grapes Delano 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paiva Farm Management 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocket Farms Herbs Inc Thermal 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferguson Complex 2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 587 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCAM, LLC 1,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA3 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Bobcat of New York Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge Landfill 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aldag Honold Mechanical, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baumann Springs FW 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers C605 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMI Factory-Ohio 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE VanDam & Krusinga Building and Restoration 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE HACCO Building 60 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, 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.