Employer · Iowa

R+L Carriers - IAC

Rock Rapids, IA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - IAC runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

R+L Carriers - IAC: 11.3 TCR = 252% of industry BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - IAC safety composite

R+L Carriers - IAC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−4.0

2020→2024

R+L Carriers - IAC injury rate improved

R+L Carriers - IAC's TCR fell 4.0 from 13.0 in 2020 to 9.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 22.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=13.0 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=22.6 · 2024=9.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Rock Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #46/50
  • PHOTO ABF Freight 216
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABF Freight 216 (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - IAC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - IAC averages 11.3 TCR (252% 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 - IAC TCR series: 2020=13 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=22.6 · 2024=9 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - IAC falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 50 industry employers in Iowa.

R+L Carriers - IAC (30 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 - IAC
R+L Carriers - IAC (30 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - IAC has fewer 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 9.0 9.0 3 0 0
2023 22.6 12.9 7 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2021 8.4 5.6 3 0 0
2020 13.0 13.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IA · Rock Rapids

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in Rock Rapids, IA · 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 ABF Freight 216 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CENTRAL FREIGHTLINES-ATLANTA BURFORD 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 819 RENO 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Harbor - SCA/NV - 077 - PHO 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR IA,ROCK RAPIDS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lyon Specialty Care 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rock Rapids care Center 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Electrical Divisions Northlake 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crescent Crown Distributing_Mesa 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CMS Home Care Nueva Vida De La Salud 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Classic Salads, LLC Yuma 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Inland Truck Parts Company 34 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE BTI Ness City 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gillespie Middle School 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Club 30 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.