Employer · Kentucky

R+L Carriers - LVE

Louisville, KY · ~178 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - LVE runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - LVE: 7.7 TCR = 172% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - LVE safety composite

R+L Carriers - LVE scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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 - LVE: 6.6 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

R+L Carriers - LVE's TCR rose 0.9 from 6.6 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #40/49
  • PHOTO R+L Carriers - LEX
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 138 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

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

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R+L Carriers - LVE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - LVE averages 7.7 TCR (172% 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 - LVE TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=6 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - LVE falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 49 industry employers in Kentucky.

R+L Carriers - LVE (178 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 - LVE
R+L Carriers - LVE (178 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - LVE has more 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 7.5 7.0 17 0 0
2023 5.1 4.2 11 0 0
2022 10.6 10.1 21 0 0
2021 11.3 10.0 26 0 0
2020 6.0 5.0 12 0 0
2019 8.6 7.5 16 0 0
2018 7.3 7.3 13 0 0
2017 6.5 5.9 11 0 0
2016 6.6 6.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · KY · Louisville

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 - LEX 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edison 006 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SJC-ODFL 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Louis 064 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mubea Transmission Disc Springs 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Banks Grocery Company 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 8111 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE 128 - ASHLAND DC 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Eau Claire Wi 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PORTLAND 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowline 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3021 Keystone 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 165-Phoenix Marriott at Tempe, the Buttes Resort 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Albert M. Higley Co. 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jamesplc 1 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alphapointe - New York 178 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.