General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Kansas

R+L Carriers - KAN

Kansas City, KS · ~195 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - KAN runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - KAN: 5.5 TCR = 123% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - KAN safety composite

R+L Carriers - KAN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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 - KAN: 4.6 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2018

R+L Carriers - KAN's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.6 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Kansas City, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #26/42
  • PHOTO R+L Carriers - FTM
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

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

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R+L Carriers - KAN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - KAN averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

R+L Carriers - KAN TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=7 · 2018=5 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - KAN falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 42 General freight trucking, long employers in Kansas.

R+L Carriers - KAN (195 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 - KAN
R+L Carriers - KAN (195 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - KAN has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, 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
2018 5.0 4.6 13 0 0
2017 7.0 6.2 18 0 0
2016 4.6 4.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · KS · Kansas City

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas City, KS · 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 - FTM 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bend OR FXFE-BND 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AUS-ODFL 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corbin COR 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodwill N Webb Rd 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airshare Headquarters 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland - KC 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ventra Kansas 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacksonville (Flwrd) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SMF - Airport United Airlines Offices 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Midway 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Chillicothe 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Middleburg Heights Oh (Ohmht) 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem (Orsal) 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reading Locations 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenlake Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 195 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: 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.