R & L Carriers Shared Services, LLC

An employee arrived at a customer's facility and began to prepare a trailer for drop-off. The employee lost his grip while climbing off the trailer and fell to the ground, striking his head. The employee sustained a concussion, six fractured vertebrae, a right shoulder strain, and a hip injury.

The injured employee was backing up a forklift on the dock when another forklift backed out of a trailer and struck the injured employee's forklift and left leg. His foot was crushed between the two forklifts, resulting in a laceration and two fractured toes.

On January 16, 2025, an employee was stepping down from the bottom step of a truck's cab when he slipped in snowy slush and fell to the ground. He suffered a broken left tibia and fibula.

An employee was walking up entrance steps to a building. The employee tripped, fell, and suffered a broken left leg.

An employee was making a delivery to a customer. As he was walking back to his truck, he slipped on ice and fell to the sidewalk. The employee was hospitalized with a closed fracture to the left ulna at the elbow and required surgery.

An employee was repairing the suspension of a semi-trailer. He was installing an air bag to the suspension when his left ring finger was crushed between the air bag and the suspension mounting beam. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was dislodging a towbar and hitch between two golf carts. The upper part of the employee's left index finger was pinched in the towbar/hitch, causing an amputation at the last joint.

An employee was loading a motor onto a trailer when he struck his left elbow against the radiator. His elbow was lacerated and became infected, resulting in hospitalization.

An employee was helping a crew move a section of a grain conveyor that weighed 600-lbs into the proper configuration. The piece of equipment was sitting on a transport cart. While turning the cart to align it, the piece of equipment shifted and the employee's right middle finger was pinched in a small gap between the equipment and the cart. The employee pulled his gloved hand away and suffered a fingertip amputation.

On May 16, 2025, an employee was performing iron work. He was sliding a 3/4" x 2' x 4' bent plate across another plate to position it for installation. The bent plate crushed his left middle finger between the two steel plates. The distal bone was fractured and required a revision amputation.

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.

An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.

A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.