Employer · Texas

R+L Carriers - HST

Houston, TX · ~220 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - HST runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

R+L Carriers - HST: 4.3 TCR = 96% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - HST safety composite

R+L Carriers - HST scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−4.7

2016→2024

R+L Carriers - HST injury rate improved

R+L Carriers - HST's TCR fell 4.7 from 7.6 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.6 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #97/237
  • PHOTO XKO
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XKO (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - HST in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - HST averages 4.3 TCR (96% 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 - HST TCR series: 2016=7.6 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - HST falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #97 safest of 237 industry employers in Texas.

R+L Carriers - HST (220 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 - HST
R+L Carriers - HST (220 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - HST 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 3.0 2.3 9 0 0
2023 3.8 3.1 11 0 0
2022 5.1 5.1 13 0 0
2021 2.7 2.0 8 0 0
2020 2.6 1.9 8 0 0
2019 4.2 3.8 11 0 0
2018 6.5 6.5 17 0 0
2017 3.2 2.8 7 0 0
2016 7.6 7.1 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Houston

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 XKO 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardena CA FXFE-GAR 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 071 Fontana 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Freight Lines Inc - Elm City 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ ExxonMobil Baytown 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knife River Corporation South Bryan/College Station 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenn Thurman, Inc. 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR RUTHERFORD 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1195 - Chesterfield MO 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Munson Home Care 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JBS Contracting, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milford 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE MEP - Main 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando RPC 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeus Aiken 220 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.