Employer · Florida

R+L Carriers - LKD

Lakeland, FL · ~394 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - LKD runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

R+L Carriers - LKD: 3.6 TCR = 80% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - LKD safety composite

R+L Carriers - LKD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−1.3

2016→2024

R+L Carriers - LKD injury rate improved

R+L Carriers - LKD's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.5 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Lakeland, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #21/96
  • PHOTO ATL/GSS-ODFL
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 133 inj
  • SIZE ~394 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATL/GSS-ODFL (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - LKD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - LKD averages 3.6 TCR (80% 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 - LKD TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=4 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - LKD falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 96 industry employers in Florida.

R+L Carriers - LKD (394 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R+L Carriers - LKD
R+L Carriers - LKD (394 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - LKD 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 3.1 2.7 14 0 0
2023 4.4 3.9 20 0 0
2022 4.0 3.8 18 0 0
2021 3.2 3.2 16 0 0
2020 2.4 1.9 10 0 0
2019 2.9 2.6 11 0 1
2018 3.1 2.8 12 0 0
2017 4.8 4.3 17 0 0
2016 4.5 4.5 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · FL · Lakeland

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, FL · 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 ATL/GSS-ODFL 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR XGS Kent 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FWT-ODFL 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOU-ODFL 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE One Stop Cooling and Heating, LLC 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keenan, Hopkins, Schmidt & Stowell Contractors - Entire company 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nutranext 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5054 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR Clifton Steel 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brim Construction Group, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 009 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Trion Finishing Plant 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dubuque Store 394 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Energy Authority 394 FTE
NAT-SIZE BIR JV, LLP (d/b/a Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation) 394 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haugland Energy Group LLC 394 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.