General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Connecticut

R+L Carriers - WFD

Meridan, CT · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - WFD runs at 333% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade F.

R+L Carriers - WFD: 15.0 TCR = 333% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - WFD safety composite

R+L Carriers - WFD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 - WFD: 14.4 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2023

R+L Carriers - WFD's TCR rose 1.2 from 14.4 in 2022 to 15.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Meridan, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 333% of ind

  • DART 14.2 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO ABF Freight 234
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABF Freight 234 (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - WFD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - WFD averages 15.0 TCR (333% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

R+L Carriers - WFD TCR series: 2022=14.4 · 2023=15.6 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - WFD falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 General freight trucking, long employers in Connecticut.

R+L Carriers - WFD (71 employees, TCR 15.0) 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 - WFD
R+L Carriers - WFD (71 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - WFD has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, 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
2023 15.6 14.2 11 0 0
2022 14.4 11.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · CT · Meridan

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 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 ABF Freight 234 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 185 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1230 SPRINGFIELD 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACC-ORD 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Madison 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE BioSafe Systems, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Manufacturing 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connecticut Coining Inc - AMG 71 FTE
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply - Pasadena 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scappoose Store 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin OPCO. LLC 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 9123-Smf-Primeflight Aviation Services, Inc. 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manor Lake Hiram 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadowview Physician Practice LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Byron Products 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Luverne 71 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.