Electric power generation, tidal · New Mexico

Rio Grande Power Plant

Sunland Park, NM · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rio Grande Power Plant runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electric power generation, tidal workplace, earning a grade F.

Rio Grande Power Plant: 3.1 TCR = 258% of Electric power generation, tidal BLS 1.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rio Grande Power Plant safety composite

Rio Grande Power Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Rio Grande Power Plant: 2.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Rio Grande Power Plant's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.0 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221118 · Sunland Park, NM ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.1 · 258% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P39
  • PHOTO Fox Energy
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fox Energy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rio Grande Power Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rio Grande Power Plant averages 3.1 TCR (258% of the Electric power generation, tidal BLS benchmark).

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

Rio Grande Power Plant TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Rio Grande Power Plant falls in its industry

84 Electric power generation, tid establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Rio Grande Power Plant (41 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Rio Grande Power Plant
Rio Grande Power Plant (41 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Rio Grande Power Plant has fewer employees than the Electric power generation, tidal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 5.3 2.7 2 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221118 · NM · Sunland Park

84 Electric power generation, tidal employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico with headcount on file · 6 employers in Sunland Park, 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 Fox Energy 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EASTERN CONSTRUCT/FLD SRVC-1 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ramona Satellite Office - Bld: 5327 - 01 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holmgren Way Warehouse 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE G&H Construction Company Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wireless - Albuquerque, MN 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office/Plant 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE NM.ALBUQ.1 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR C&E Industrial Services Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rio Grande 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPD 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Era Spray Foam 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Eugene EWP 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brownsville 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Airport 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meriden Novolex Plant 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE SA Recycling, Pompano 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Cord Design and Construction, LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44th Logistics 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinity Underground LLC 41 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.