Employer · Virginia

R+L Carriers - ROA

Salem, VA · ~51 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - ROA runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

R+L Carriers - ROA: 7.1 TCR = 158% of industry BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - ROA safety composite

R+L Carriers - ROA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−0.6

2016→2024

R+L Carriers - ROA injury rate improved

R+L Carriers - ROA's TCR fell 0.6 from 4.8 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.8 · 2017=16.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Salem, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #48/68
  • PHOTO XYH
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XYH (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - ROA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - ROA averages 7.1 TCR (158% 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 - ROA TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=16.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - ROA falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 68 industry employers in Virginia.

R+L Carriers - ROA (51 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 - ROA
R+L Carriers - ROA (51 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - ROA has fewer 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 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 3 0 0
2022 6.4 3.2 4 0 0
2021 9.9 8.5 7 0 0
2020 7.6 7.6 4 0 0
2019 8.4 8.4 4 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2017 16.1 16.1 7 0 0
2016 4.8 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · VA · Salem

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 134 employers in Salem, VA · 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 XYH 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LUB 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 034 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSA 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glade Spring Svc Ctr 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlottesville - Gas 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lionberger Construction 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE purcell construction inc. Virginia 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carter Machinery Company, Inc. 2,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lewis Gale Medical Center 1,159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Virginia, LLC 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR LewisGale Medical Center 690 FTE
NAT-TCR Ben Avery Shooting Facility and Clay Target Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR IKEA #488 Seattle 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nature's Way Purewater Systems, Inc. d/b/a USHydrations 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadowbrook Mall 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - LRA 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Batesville 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blalock Lumber Company 51 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.