Dry milk manufacturing · New Mexico

Portales, NM

Portales, NM · ~151 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Portales, NM runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dry milk manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Portales, NM: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Dry milk manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Portales, NM safety composite

Portales, NM scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Portales, NM: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2021

Portales, NM's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Portales, NM AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P83
  • PHOTO Foremost Farms USA (…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foremost Farms USA (Plover, WI) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Portales, NM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Portales, NM averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Dry milk manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Portales, NM TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Portales, NM falls in its industry

185 Dry milk manufacturing establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Portales, NM (151 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Portales, NM
Portales, NM (151 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Portales, NM has more employees than the Dry milk manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 3.3 1.6 3 3 0
2020 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2019 1.4 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · NM · Portales

185 Dry milk manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico with headcount on file · 15 employers in Portales, 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 Foremost Farms USA (Plover, WI) 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danone Minster OH 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - Drying - Garden City KS 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - Drying - Cass City MI 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Miller Bonded Inc 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingredients - Drying - Portales NM 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2879 LOWE S OF RIO RANCHO NM 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cn Wire Corporation 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2653 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2653 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Dairy Transport-Portales 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portales Select Peanut Co 74 FTE
NAT-TCR North Penn Plating and Polishing 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Gobain Traverse City 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 183 University Avenue. E 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Colbert Flexographic Packaging - WI 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Health System Office (470-6300) 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Priority Ambulance 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Townsend Leather Company 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pointsmith 151 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.