Employer · New York

R+L Carriers - BUF

Tonawanda, NY · ~87 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - BUF runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - BUF: 7.4 TCR = 164% of industry BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - BUF safety composite

R+L Carriers - BUF scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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 - BUF: 2.5 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

R+L Carriers - BUF's TCR rose 6.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Tonawanda, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #37/98
  • PHOTO R+L Carriers - COL
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R+L Carriers - COL (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - BUF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - BUF averages 7.4 TCR (164% 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 - BUF TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=8.6 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=14.7 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - BUF 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 New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 98 industry employers in New York.

R+L Carriers - BUF (87 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 - BUF
R+L Carriers - BUF (87 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - BUF 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 8.8 7.1 10 0 0
2022 14.7 12.7 15 0 0
2021 7.8 7.8 9 0 0
2020 6.3 6.3 6 0 0
2019 6.8 5.7 6 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2017 8.6 6.2 7 0 0
2016 2.5 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NY · Tonawanda

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, NY · 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 R+L Carriers - COL 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento CA FXFE-SAC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hagerstown 151 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Academy Sports DAA 1 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE SARATOGA SERVICE CENTER-NY16 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-LOG 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Streeter Associates, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 212-NY-New York South 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
NAT-TCR R+L Carriers - COL 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Agricover 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Excelsior Company Norwalk 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 139 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - HTF 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cotton Electric 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE American West Construction, LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Treu House of Munch, Inc. 87 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.