Salt (except table) manufacturing · New Mexico

Southwest Salt Co.

Loving, NM · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Salt Co. runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Salt (except table) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Southwest Salt Co.: 3.7 TCR = 111% of Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Salt Co. safety composite

Southwest Salt Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.3

2021→2024

Southwest Salt Co. injury rate improved

Southwest Salt Co.'s TCR fell 8.3 from 11.4 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Loving, NM ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Rousselot Peabody Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rousselot Peabody Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Salt Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Salt Co. averages 3.7 TCR (111% of the Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Salt Co. TCR series: 2021=11.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwest Salt Co. falls in its industry

485 Salt (except table) manufactur establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southwest Salt Co. (29 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwest Salt Co.
Southwest Salt Co. (29 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Southwest Salt Co. has fewer employees than the Salt (except table) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.4 7.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · NM · Loving

485 Salt (except table) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico with headcount on file · 9 employers in Loving, 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 Rousselot Peabody Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW ProAP Manufacturing 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Products Co. (DE) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemtool, Inc., Crystal Lake 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roswell 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE JMC Construction LLC dba JMC Roofing 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baca Valley Telephone Co. & Sierra Communications Inc. 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company New Mexico 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delaware East 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delaware South 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delaware West 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loving Yard 80 FTE
NAT-TCR La Quinta Inn Boise 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cranston-Garfield, RI - Biomat 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Birkett Mills 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Joe's Towing - Bloomington 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Construction Supply - Red Bud Yard 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Musco Sports Lighting, LLC / Facilities 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland - Green Bay 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8027583 Burgess Norton Mfg Co 29 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.