Candles manufacturing · Massachusetts

Yankee Candle Manufacturing

Whately, MA · ~687 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Yankee Candle Manufacturing runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Candles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Yankee Candle Manufacturing: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Candles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Yankee Candle Manufacturing safety composite

Yankee Candle Manufacturing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−1.1

2016→2023

Yankee Candle Manufacturing injury rate improved

Yankee Candle Manufacturing's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.7 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.7 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Whately, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO MDI-TC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 113 inj
  • SIZE ~687 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MDI-TC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Yankee Candle Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Yankee Candle Manufacturing averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Candles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Yankee Candle Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=3 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Yankee Candle Manufacturing falls in its industry

281 Candles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Candles manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Yankee Candle Manufacturing (687 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Yankee Candle Manufacturing
Yankee Candle Manufacturing (687 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Yankee Candle Manufacturing 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
2023 0.6 0.1 4 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 3 0 0
2021 2.6 0.8 19 0 0
2020 2.4 1.3 15 0 0
2019 2.9 1.8 21 0 0
2018 3.0 2.3 20 0 0
2017 2.8 2.1 19 2 0
2016 1.7 1.5 12 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · MA · Whately

281 Candles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 MDI-TC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodstock 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-Town Production 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newton 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE J Polep Distribution Services 686 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quiet Logistics 688 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMOC 686 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lacerta Group, LLC - 11 Norfolk Rd. 689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covestro Deerfield 144 FTE
NAT-TCR Transport Services of Sullivan 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ITW Evercoat 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Components and Heli : Phoenix 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Clickstop, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vi-Jon, LLC Smyrna TN 687 FTE
NAT-SIZE TRMI, Inc. 687 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alhambra Hospital Medical Center 687 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, LLC 687 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.