Tanker trucking (e.g., chemical, juice, milk, petroleum), long-distance · New Mexico

Western Dairy Transport-Portales

Portales, NM · ~198 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Dairy Transport-Portales runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tanker trucking (e.g., chemical, juice, milk, petroleum), long-distance workplace, earning a grade C.

Western Dairy Transport-Portales: 4.5 TCR = 101% of Tanker trucking (e.g., chemical, juice, milk, petroleum), long-distance BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Dairy Transport-Portales safety composite

Western Dairy Transport-Portales scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2024

Western Dairy Transport-Portales injury rate improved

Western Dairy Transport-Portales's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.6 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Portales, NM ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 101% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Hilco Transport Kann…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 80 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hilco Transport Kannapolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Dairy Transport-Portales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Dairy Transport-Portales averages 4.5 TCR (101% of the Tanker trucking (e.g., chemical, juice, milk, petroleum), long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

Western Dairy Transport-Portales TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Western Dairy Transport-Portales falls in its industry

1,026 Tanker trucking (e.g., chemica establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Mexico alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Tanker trucking (e.g., chemica employers in New Mexico.

Western Dairy Transport-Portales (198 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Dairy Transport-Portales
Western Dairy Transport-Portales (198 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Western Dairy Transport-Portales has more employees than the Tanker trucking (e.g., chemical, juice, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 3.9 3.9 8 0 0
2023 4.5 4.0 9 0 0
2022 5.3 4.7 10 0 0
2021 5.6 3.4 10 0 0
2020 2.7 2.1 5 0 0
2019 5.2 3.6 10 0 0
2018 5.8 4.1 13 1 0
2017 3.4 1.0 7 0 0
2016 4.6 0.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · NM · Portales

1,026 Tanker trucking (e.g., chemical, juice, milk, petroleum), long-distance 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 Hilco Transport Kannapolis 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westen Dairy Transport-Vinton 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9613-1301 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KME 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mission Foods 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHG-RR High Resort 4005 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE USM Store #680 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2652 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2653 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2653 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingredients - Drying - Portales NM 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portales, NM 151 FTE
NAT-TCR USA TX Houston Commercial 704377 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Airline Drive Store 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Opportunity Center Administration 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilco Transport Kannapolis 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evesham Rd Supermarket LLC 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAREK Dallas 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magic Kingdom, Inc. 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renishaw Inc-West Dundee, IL 198 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, 2019, 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.