Employer · Illinois

R+L Carriers - ELG

Elgin, IL · ~169 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - ELG runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - ELG: 6.4 TCR = 142% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - ELG safety composite

R+L Carriers - ELG scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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 - ELG: 5.1 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

R+L Carriers - ELG's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.1 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #87/177
  • PHOTO XCD
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XCD (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - ELG in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - ELG averages 6.4 TCR (142% 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 - ELG TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=6 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=8 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - ELG falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #87 safest of 177 industry employers in Illinois.

R+L Carriers - ELG (169 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 - ELG
R+L Carriers - ELG (169 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - ELG 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 6.6 5.3 15 0 0
2023 8.0 8.0 17 0 0
2022 8.8 7.2 17 0 0
2021 6.7 4.5 15 0 0
2020 4.2 2.1 8 0 0
2019 6.0 4.8 10 0 0
2018 5.5 3.6 9 0 0
2017 6.9 4.8 10 0 0
2016 5.1 3.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Elgin

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 XCD 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transmaritime, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville KY FXFE-LOU 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Markham 130 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village of Bartlett Water Division 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village of Bartlett Wastewater Division 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village of Bartlett Streets Division 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACH Food Companies, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Flagler Hospital, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant Wallace 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TMI 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 012/Campbellsville University 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monin, Inc. Range Road 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE South AL Division 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Austin Co. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake City 169 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.