Employer · Michigan

R+L Carriers - BTC

Battle Creek, MI · ~174 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - BTC runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

R+L Carriers - BTC: 3.0 TCR = 67% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - BTC safety composite

R+L Carriers - BTC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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 - BTC: 2.5 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2024

R+L Carriers - BTC's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Battle Creek, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #21/95
  • PHOTO Central Freight Line…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Freight Lines Inc- Fredericksburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - BTC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - BTC averages 3.0 TCR (67% 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 - BTC TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=3 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3 · 2023=2 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - BTC falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 95 industry employers in Michigan.

R+L Carriers - BTC (174 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 - BTC
R+L Carriers - BTC (174 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - BTC has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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 3.1 1.2 5 0 0
2023 2.0 1.0 4 0 0
2022 3.0 2.0 6 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 6 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2019 4.9 4.3 9 0 1
2018 4.4 4.4 8 0 0
2017 3.0 1.2 5 0 0
2016 2.5 0.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MI · Battle Creek

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 161 employers in Battle Creek, MI · 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 Central Freight Lines Inc- Fredericksburg 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 002-WAL 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATW-ODFL 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LSI-ODFL 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Service Professor GR 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corium Innovations, Inc. 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unistrut International Corporation - Wayne Operation 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown LLC 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denso Manufacturing of Michigan 2,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRONSON BATTLE CREEK 1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Battle Creek HQ Corporate Office 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR I I Stanley Co., Inc. 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Coos Health & Wellness 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin K. Eby Construction Co. - Spirit Only 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Printing House, LTD 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tindall Corporation - Virginia Division 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE IKEA #153 Pittsburgh 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graber Post Buildings Inc 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gill Ranch 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Pet Foods - Ripon 174 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.