Crude petroleum production · New Mexico

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian

Carlsbad, NM · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Crude petroleum production workplace, earning a grade B.

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian: 1.4 TCR = 76% of Crude petroleum production BLS 1.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian safety composite

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2017

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 211111 · Carlsbad, NM AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 76% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Devon Energy Corpora…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Devon Energy Corporation - Gillette (0.0 TCR gap)

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WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian averages 1.4 TCR (76% of the Crude petroleum production BLS benchmark).

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

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.9 · BLS 1.9

Where WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian falls in its industry

225 Crude petroleum production establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Mexico alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Crude petroleum production employers in New Mexico.

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian (50 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian
WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian (50 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 0.9

WPX Energy, Inc. - Permian has fewer employees than the Crude petroleum production median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2017 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

211111 · NM · Carlsbad

225 Crude petroleum production 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 Devon Energy Corporation - Gillette 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Devon Energy Corportation - Crane 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mewbourne Oil Company 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hobbs 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DJR Operating, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlsbad Branch 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE QA Engineering 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Electrical Construction, Inc. 50 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 St. Nicks 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Devon Energy Corportation - Crane 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - The Star 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Ft Wayne Southwest 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Camdenton Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of California Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06- Knoxville, TN 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - Ft. Lauderdale, FL 50 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: 2017, 2016. 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.