Employer · Texas

R+L Carriers - LAF

Harlingen, TX · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - LAF runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

R+L Carriers - LAF: 3.0 TCR = 68% of industry BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - LAF safety composite

R+L Carriers - LAF scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−0.8

2022→2024

R+L Carriers - LAF injury rate improved

R+L Carriers - LAF's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.7 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.7 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Harlingen, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 68% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #55/237
  • PHOTO 031-DAN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 031-DAN (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - LAF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - LAF averages 3.0 TCR (68% 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 - LAF TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - LAF falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #55 safest of 237 industry employers in Texas.

R+L Carriers - LAF (42 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 - LAF
R+L Carriers - LAF (42 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - LAF has fewer 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Harlingen

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 133 employers in Harlingen, 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 031-DAN 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 497 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 923 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-HL-ME 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters Southeast 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Littlefield Feedyard 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3-H Dairy LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-838 1,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen Medical Center 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX_Harlingen_2921 S. Expswy 83_TCIP2T20 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 595 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Agri-Fab, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LaPorte Painting, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DuMor, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Graham Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Quakertown 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aexcel Corporation 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Automation Inc. 42 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. 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.