Employer · Alabama

R+L Carriers - BIR

Birmingham, AL · ~104 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - BIR runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - BIR: 7.3 TCR = 162% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - BIR safety composite

R+L Carriers - BIR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 - BIR: 6.2 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

R+L Carriers - BIR's TCR rose 6.3 from 6.2 in 2016 to 12.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #46/62
  • PHOTO Knoxville 074
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knoxville 074 (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - BIR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - BIR averages 7.3 TCR (162% 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 - BIR TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=9.3 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=7 · 2021=3 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=12.5 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - BIR falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 62 industry employers in Alabama.

R+L Carriers - BIR (104 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 - BIR
R+L Carriers - BIR (104 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - BIR 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 12.5 11.1 18 0 0
2023 6.1 6.1 8 0 0
2022 6.2 5.3 7 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 4 0 0
2020 7.0 7.0 8 0 0
2019 9.7 9.7 10 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 6 0 0
2017 9.3 8.3 9 0 0
2016 6.2 5.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · AL · Birmingham

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 Knoxville 074 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR STC-ODFL 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 814 FRESNO 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 522 AUSTIN 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Generation Fossil Gorgas Steam Plant 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Division 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFS Huntsville 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitfield Foods Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Jackson Coca-Cola 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandusky Mall 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Arvada Store 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lodge Retirement community 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pocket Nurse Enterprises, LLC 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carrier Great Lakes 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Innospec Active Chemicals, Salisbury 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol Woodworks LLC 104 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.