Candles manufacturing · Ohio

Root Candles

Medina, OH · ~203 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Root Candles runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Root Candles: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Root Candles safety composite

Root Candles scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2017→2018

Root Candles injury rate improved

Root Candles's TCR fell 2.3 from 3.6 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Medina, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Candle-lite, Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Candle-lite, Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Root Candles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Root Candles averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Root Candles TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Root Candles falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 15 Candles manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Root Candles (203 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Root Candles
Root Candles (203 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Root Candles has more employees than the Candles manufacturing median and a lower 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 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.6 1.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · OH · Medina

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 124 employers in Medina, OH · 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 Candle-lite, Company 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeKalb 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knud Nielsen Company, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICE 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stingray Pressure Pumping 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Services & Design 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casad Company Inc 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medina Hospital 1,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandridge Food Corporation 642 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandridge Food Corporation - Medina 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlisle Brake and Friction 451 FTE
NAT-TCR Isle Health and Rehabilitation Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wall Street 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Timber Blinds LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 5029 St. Joseph Hospital 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cicotte (Micic) 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Globecomm Systems Inc. 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X Waterbury LLC 203 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.