Employer · Ohio

R+L Carriers - NOR

Norwalk, OH · ~387 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - NOR runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

R+L Carriers - NOR: 4.2 TCR = 94% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - NOR safety composite

R+L Carriers - NOR scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

R+L Carriers - NOR: 2.1 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

R+L Carriers - NOR's TCR rose 2.9 from 2.1 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Norwalk, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 94% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #57/146
  • PHOTO Roanoke 007
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 170 inj
  • SIZE ~387 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roanoke 007 (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - NOR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - NOR averages 4.2 TCR (94% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

R+L Carriers - NOR TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=5 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - NOR falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 146 industry employers in Ohio.

R+L Carriers - NOR (387 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R+L Carriers - NOR
R+L Carriers - NOR (387 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - NOR 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 5.0 3.7 23 0 1
2023 4.8 3.4 22 2 0
2022 5.0 4.2 24 0 0
2021 4.6 3.9 25 0 0
2020 3.5 2.6 16 0 0
2019 6.1 5.8 25 0 0
2018 4.1 3.6 17 0 0
2017 2.6 2.4 10 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · OH · Norwalk

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 60 employers in Norwalk, OH · 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 Roanoke 007 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Maria 294 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingsport TN FXFE-KPT 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester NY FXFE-ROC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 4255 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cheryl's Cookies 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Health and Wellness Bath 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Choice Medical Staffing 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisher Titus Medical Center 1,024 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1986 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borgers 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borgers Ohio Inc 322 FTE
NAT-TCR Union Temporary Services, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bbb 1200/1250 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow Construction, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CO-Denver 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Commercial Trade Source 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Way Facility 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE HEADP 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 387 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.