Candles manufacturing · Texas

Reed Candle Company

San Antonio, TX · ~41 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reed Candle Company runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Reed Candle Company: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reed Candle Company safety composite

Reed Candle Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Reed Candle Company: 2.2 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Reed Candle Company's TCR rose 6.3 from 2.2 in 2018 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · San Antonio, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO GMN-SJ
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GMN-SJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reed Candle Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reed Candle Company averages 3.6 TCR (108% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Reed Candle Company TCR series: 2018=2.2 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Reed Candle Company 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 Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Candles manufacturing employers in Texas.

Reed Candle Company (41 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Reed Candle Company
Reed Candle Company (41 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Reed Candle Company 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 8.5 0.0 3 0 0
2023 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.1 2.1 2 0 0
2019 8.7 4.3 4 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · TX · San Antonio

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,207 employers in San Antonio, TX · 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 GMN-SJ 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benchmark Games International 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovent Technologies, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Voluspa 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Val Verde Vegetable Co., Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE LS QUIEN SABE LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE BREEDER / BROILER DEPARTMENT 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Expo12 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bexar County Hospital District 8,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legend Oaks Health & Rehabilitation West San Antonio 6,953 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISS Facility Services Inc. 6,177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vida of San Antonio 5,262 FTE
NAT-TCR Seats Richalnd Center Division 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Road Machinery and Supplies (Virginia) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AGC Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Maricopa County - Environmental Services (880) 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hitran Corporation 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Technologies LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks New Orleans 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martinsburg Brick Plant 41 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, 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.