Hazardous waste disposal facilities · New Mexico

WIPP

Carlsbad, NM · ~906 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WIPP runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hazardous waste disposal facilities workplace, earning a grade A.

WIPP: 0.6 TCR = 23% of Hazardous waste disposal facilities BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WIPP safety composite

WIPP scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

WIPP held a steady TCR band

WIPP's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562211 · Carlsbad, NM AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO US Ecology Managed S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~906 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Ecology Managed Service Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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WIPP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WIPP averages 0.6 TCR (23% of the Hazardous waste disposal facilities BLS benchmark).

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

WIPP TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.3 · BLS 2.6

Where WIPP falls in its industry

211 Hazardous waste disposal facil establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Mexico alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Hazardous waste disposal facil employers in New Mexico.

WIPP (906 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate WIPP
WIPP (906 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

WIPP has more employees than the Hazardous waste disposal facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2019 0.3 0.2 3 0 0
2018 1.1 0.3 9 0 0
2016 0.4 0.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562211 · NM · Carlsbad

211 Hazardous waste disposal facilities 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 US Ecology Managed Service Group 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PERMA-FIX OF FLORIDA, INC. (PFF) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transuranic Waste Processing Center 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Deer Park Incinerator 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nuclear Waste Partnership 951 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sawmill District 861 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6084 824 FTE
STATE-SIZE NM-Albuquerque Jefferson Call Center 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR MS - Carlsbad, NM - 1CANM 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Carlsbad 493 FTE
CITY-NEAR 868 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 868 364 FTE
NAT-TCR Everris NA - Summerville 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Lumber Corrigan 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 165 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Processing plant 906 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots HQ Main Building - HQ01 906 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scs 1860 Outer Loop - 3756 (Kyvle) 906 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-ILCS 906 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.