Trading posts, general merchandise · New Mexico

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center

Bluewater, NM · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trading posts, general merchandise workplace, earning a grade C.

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center: 4.0 TCR = 116% of Trading posts, general merchandise BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center safety composite

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−5.3

2018→2024

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center injury rate improved

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center's TCR fell 5.3 from 5.3 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.3 · 2021=10.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Bluewater, NM ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 116% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO 956
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 956 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center averages 4.0 TCR (116% of the Trading posts, general merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center TCR series: 2018=5.3 · 2021=10.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center falls in its industry

2,120 Trading posts, general merchan establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Mexico alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 13 Trading posts, general merchan employers in New Mexico.

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center (21 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center
Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center (21 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Bowlin's Bluewater Travel Center has fewer employees than the Trading posts, general merchandise median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.6 0.0 2 0 0
2018 5.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NM · Bluewater

2,120 Trading posts, general merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico 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 956 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses 425 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #333 FLORENCE, AL 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4732 Petoskey, MI 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FacilityBUILD, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Taos Facilities Dept. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sychar, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooling Tower Maintenance & Repair 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramics, Boron Nitride 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR S&S Manufacturing 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Surfaces Ocala 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Don King's Concrete, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elemental Scientific Lasers LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Architectural Stone Fabricator 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Farms LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Water & Sewer Co. 21 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, 2021, 2018. 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.