Employer · Maryland

R+L Carriers - BAL

Baltimore, MD · ~187 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - BAL runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - BAL: 8.0 TCR = 179% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - BAL safety composite

R+L Carriers - BAL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

R+L Carriers - BAL: 6.3 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

R+L Carriers - BAL's TCR rose 4.6 from 6.3 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Baltimore, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 179% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #24/41
  • PHOTO Mesick 113
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 154 inj
  • SIZE ~187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mesick 113 (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - BAL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - BAL averages 8.0 TCR (179% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

R+L Carriers - BAL TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=9.3 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=9.9 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - BAL falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 41 industry employers in Maryland.

R+L Carriers - BAL (187 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R+L Carriers - BAL
R+L Carriers - BAL (187 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - BAL has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 10.8 10.0 27 0 0
2023 7.8 7.3 18 0 0
2022 9.9 9.0 22 0 0
2021 10.1 7.3 25 0 0
2020 7.1 5.2 15 0 0
2019 6.8 5.7 13 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 8 0 0
2017 9.3 8.7 16 0 0
2016 6.3 6.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MD · Baltimore

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 1,031 employers in Baltimore, MD · 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 Mesick 113 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOI-ODFL 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Freight Lines Inc - Atlanta South 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 295 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Singleton Electric Company, Inc. 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCM Services 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastipak- Havre de Grace 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE L3Harris Technologies Inc-Millersville 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johns Hopkins Hospital 12,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 7,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGMS-T340 6,180 FTE
NAT-TCR Town Village Assisted Living 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Albany Terminal 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Florence - 04 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stafford Hospital 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mary Ann Morse Healthcare Center 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Johnsville Rehab and Nursing Center 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBI 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rexair LLC 187 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, 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.