Employer · Massachusetts

R+L Carriers - BOS

Canton, MA · ~89 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - BOS runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - BOS: 8.2 TCR = 181% of industry BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - BOS safety composite

R+L Carriers - BOS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 - BOS: 7.6 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

R+L Carriers - BOS's TCR rose 4.4 from 7.6 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Canton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 181% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #17/42
  • PHOTO MAW-ODFL
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MAW-ODFL (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - BOS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - BOS averages 8.2 TCR (181% 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 - BOS TCR series: 2016=7.6 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=7 · 2020=12.2 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=2 · 2024=12 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - BOS falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 42 industry employers in Massachusetts.

R+L Carriers - BOS (89 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 - BOS
R+L Carriers - BOS (89 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - BOS 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 12.0 10.2 13 0 0
2022 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 9.1 7.4 11 0 0
2020 12.2 10.3 13 0 0
2019 7.0 6.0 7 0 0
2018 9.4 7.3 9 0 0
2017 5.9 4.7 5 0 0
2016 7.6 6.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MA · Canton

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 98 employers in Canton, MA · 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 MAW-ODFL 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FNT 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR R+L Carriers - PRV 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston 023 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1-EMP-Billerica 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shire - Milford MA 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed Air 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bixby International Corp 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Point32Health Canton 4,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Organogenesis (Campus: 85, 65, and 150 Dan Rd Canton Locations) 855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Organogenesis (Campus: 85, 65, and 150 Dan Rd Canton Location's) 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR E.M. Duggan, Inc. 432 FTE
NAT-TCR IKEA #170 Bolingbrook 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainview Hospital 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nu Way Concrete Forms Troy, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #129 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - TAC 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE WCAT Lubbock 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Tech Systems, Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palace Construction Co., Inc 89 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, 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.