Pecan farming · New Mexico

Chase Farms - New Mexico

Artesia, NM · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chase Farms - New Mexico runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pecan farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Chase Farms - New Mexico: 3.4 TCR = 76% of Pecan farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chase Farms - New Mexico safety composite

Chase Farms - New Mexico scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Chase Farms - New Mexico held a steady TCR band

Chase Farms - New Mexico's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.7 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Artesia, NM AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 76% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK P58
  • PHOTO Coburn Ranch
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coburn Ranch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chase Farms - New Mexico in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chase Farms - New Mexico averages 3.4 TCR (76% of the Pecan farming BLS benchmark).

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

Chase Farms - New Mexico TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=5 · 2018=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Chase Farms - New Mexico falls in its industry

120 Pecan farming establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Chase Farms - New Mexico (66 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chase Farms - New Mexico
Chase Farms - New Mexico (66 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Chase Farms - New Mexico has more employees than the Pecan farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2018 2.5 2.5 0 2 0
2017 5.0 2.5 2 2 0
2016 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · NM · Artesia

120 Pecan farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico with headcount on file · 39 employers in Artesia, NM · 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 Coburn Ranch 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland Farms III 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blackburn Farming Company 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braden Farms 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Industrial Mechanical Inc. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Albuquerque 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE PARTS PLUS OF NEW MEXICO, INC. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPA Albuquerque Distribution Center 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Artesia General Hospital 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR HollyFrontier Navajo Refining LLC 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR HF Sinclair Navajo Refining LLC Artesia Refinery 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Artesia, NM (North Yard) 325 FTE
NAT-TCR William Jewell College 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Texhoma Truss LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Daily Equipment Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hawthorn Hartford Meriden 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avenel Site 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Market #511 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heartland 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premium Concrete 66 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.