Employer · Illinois

R+L Carriers - CHI

Chicago, IL · ~315 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - CHI runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

R+L Carriers - CHI: 5.3 TCR = 117% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - CHI safety composite

R+L Carriers - CHI scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2016→2024

R+L Carriers - CHI injury rate improved

R+L Carriers - CHI's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.9 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.9 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #59/177
  • PHOTO XCL
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 163 inj
  • SIZE ~315 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XCL (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - CHI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - CHI averages 5.3 TCR (117% 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 - CHI TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - CHI falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 177 industry employers in Illinois.

R+L Carriers - CHI (315 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 - CHI
R+L Carriers - CHI (315 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - CHI 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 3.2 2.9 10 0 0
2023 4.6 3.6 14 0 0
2022 5.5 4.1 16 0 0
2021 7.8 7.1 32 0 0
2020 6.6 4.8 23 2 0
2019 4.5 3.9 16 0 0
2018 3.5 2.5 13 0 0
2017 6.8 5.6 23 0 0
2016 4.9 4.5 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Chicago

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 XCL 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 132 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWG-ODFL 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DES-ODFL 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Meade Industries, Inc 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manchester Tank & Equipment- Quincy 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollister Whitney Elevator 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5060 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Tate Andale, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Twining, Inc. Sacramento 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tioga Construction Company, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Surface Finishing Technologies,Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gunther Motor Company of Plantation, Inc. 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fremont Beef Company 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #0072 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrison Construction Company 315 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.