Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · New Mexico

Sheriff's Department

Carlsbad, NM · ~87 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff's Department runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheriff's Department: 7.0 TCR = 220% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff's Department safety composite

Sheriff's Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Sheriff's Department held a steady TCR band

Sheriff's Department's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.3 in 2020 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.3 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Carlsbad, NM ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 220% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK P65
  • PHOTO Benton County Sherif…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Benton County Sheriff's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff's Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff's Department averages 7.0 TCR (220% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff's Department TCR series: 2020=4.3 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff's Department falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sheriff's Department (87 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's Department (87 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sheriff's Department has fewer employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2024 4.1 2.1 3 3 0
2023 10.7 5.3 8 2 0
2022 6.4 1.8 3 4 0
2021 9.7 3.3 7 2 0
2020 4.3 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NM · Carlsbad

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico with headcount on file · 71 employers in Carlsbad, 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 Benton County Sheriff's Office 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Dept. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Township of Franklin Police 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4054-ABS 0016 3913 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 344787-LCS-CARRIER ANX 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 146416 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital / PHS 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nuclear Waste Partnership 951 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIPP 906 FTE
CITY-NEAR MS - Carlsbad, NM - 1CANM 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Carlsbad 493 FTE
NAT-TCR The Dallas Group of America, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Portage Service Bldg 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NNC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Industrial Molding - Ashley 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warrenton 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE FoodTown #203 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wausau New Berlin 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Medical Center 87 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, 2020. 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.