Employer · Illinois

R+L Carriers - MEL

Melrose Park, IL · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - MEL runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - MEL: 7.2 TCR = 160% of industry BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - MEL safety composite

R+L Carriers - MEL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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 - MEL: 0.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

R+L Carriers - MEL's TCR rose 5.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Melrose Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #103/177
  • PHOTO Central Freight Line…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Fontana (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - MEL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - MEL averages 7.2 TCR (160% 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 - MEL TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - MEL falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 177 industry employers in Illinois.

R+L Carriers - MEL (84 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 - MEL
R+L Carriers - MEL (84 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - MEL 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 5.4 5.4 3 0 0
2023 9.8 8.0 11 0 0
2022 13.6 9.7 14 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Melrose Park

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 96 employers in Melrose Park, IL · 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 Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Fontana 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R+L Carriers - HAG 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Fort Worth 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 873 TACOMA 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joliet Station 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schomburg & Schomburg Construction Incorporated 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC DE JOINT VENTURE 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Concrete Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jewel Distribution DC 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-06651 FAC-06651-MELROSE PARK-IL 1,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gottlieb Memorial Hospital 923 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC - Ruby Street Plant 714 FTE
NAT-TCR Saputo Greenway 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 5401 - West Jordan 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stevens Creek Chrysler Jeep Dodge 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lane House 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manteo High 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery Inc 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barstow 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE GhoDirect LLC 84 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.