Employer · Kansas

R+L Carriers - WTK

Wichita, KS · ~53 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R+L Carriers - WTK runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

R+L Carriers - WTK: 10.4 TCR = 232% of industry BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R+L Carriers - WTK safety composite

R+L Carriers - WTK scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 - WTK: 7.5 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

R+L Carriers - WTK's TCR rose 6.7 from 7.5 in 2019 to 14.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 232% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #38/42
  • PHOTO XVL
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XVL (0.0 TCR gap)

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R+L Carriers - WTK in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R+L Carriers - WTK averages 10.4 TCR (232% 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 - WTK TCR series: 2019=7.5 · 2020=14.8 · 2021=9 · 2022=6.8 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 4.5

Where R+L Carriers - WTK falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 42 industry employers in Kansas.

R+L Carriers - WTK (53 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 - WTK
R+L Carriers - WTK (53 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

R+L Carriers - WTK 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 14.2 11.3 10 0 0
2022 6.8 6.8 4 0 0
2021 9.0 9.0 6 0 0
2020 14.8 14.8 8 0 0
2019 7.5 7.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · KS · Wichita

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, KS · 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 XVL 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boise 246 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1240 TRENTON 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OM OMAHA 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - kismet 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy Building Companies, Inc NBAF 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonic Equipment Company 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Ward Trucking LLC-Pittsburgh 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SVBFOUNDRY 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Windsor of Palm Coast 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rallot 1 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE H.E. Browder Veneer Company, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Beek Natural Science, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE M-B-W, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanderson Pipe Corporation 53 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.