State profile · OSHA ITA
New Mexico workplace safety
How 2,241 OSHA-reporting employers across New Mexico compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 2,241
- Employers
- 5.6
- Avg TCR
- 33,716
- Injuries
- 25
- Fatalities
The state picture
New Mexico's reporting employers average 5.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2,241
- employers reporting
- 33,716
- recordable injuries
- 25
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
26% of New Mexico's reporting establishments earn an F and 14% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where New Mexico ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRNew Mexico's average TCR of 5.6 is lower than 28% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, New Mexico is #39 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #18 of 54, a 21-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How New Mexico Workplaces Compare
New Mexico hosts 2,241 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this New Mexico cohort, workers have logged 33,716 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 25 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in New Mexico, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in New Mexico, by injury rate
Page 11 of 45| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOBBS_1367121 | Hobbs | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.3 |
| 2031 - Paeo | Albuquerque | - | F | 7.3 |
| Michael L. Shular / DBA Quality Inn Deming | Deming | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 7.3 |
| 3428 | Farmington | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.3 |
| Life Care Center of Farmington | Farmington | Nursing homes | C | 7.3 |
| USM Store #680 | Hobbs | Supermarkets | F | 7.3 |
| Advanced Care Hospital of Southern New Mexico, LLC | Las Cruces | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 7.3 |
| El Monte Sagrado | Taos | Hotels, resort, without casi | F | 7.3 |
| 3596 | Los Lunas | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.3 |
| Albuquerque Air Operation (Nmair) | Albuquerque | Courier Services Except by A | C | 7.2 |
| B71 Ladera Center | Albuquerque | Skilled Nursing Facility | C | 7.2 |
| Aztec Nm | Aztec | Other Grocery and Related Pr | F | 7.2 |
| Carlsbad Medical Center - EVS | Carlsbad | - | D | 7.2 |
| Farmington Assisted Living LLC | Farmington | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.2 |
| Las Cruces | Las Cruces | - | F | 7.2 |
| New Era Spray Foam | Sunland Park | Foam insulation installation | F | 7.2 |
| 2807-3167 | Carlsbad | Homecenter | F | 7.2 |
| 2807-3048 | Los Lunas | Homecenter | F | 7.2 |
| 4769-88-Pottery Barn | Albuquerque | Furniture Merchant Wholesale | F | 7.2 |
| Transit Hauling | Bloomfield | Refuse collecting and operat | F | 7.2 |
| 1016 - Northwest Albuquerque Nm Whse | Albuquerque | Warehouse clubs (i.e., food | F | 7.2 |
| 342982-Farmington Po | Farmington | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.2 |
| 344788-Las Cruces Po | Las Cruces | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.2 |
| Santa Fe Nm | Santa Fe | Other Grocery and Related Pr | F | 7.2 |
| 2813 - Albuquerque Uptown | Albuquerque | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.1 |
| 0116 - Albuquerque Nm Whse | Albuquerque | Warehouse clubs (i.e., food | F | 7.1 |
| National Distributing Company 1 | Albuquerque | - | F | 7.1 |
| San Juan Generating Station | Waterflow | - | F | 7.1 |
| 4192-00051484-32 | Ruidoso | Lumber & Construction Materi | F | 7.1 |
| Aspen Facility (Nmasp) | Albuquerque | Courier Services Except by A | C | 7.1 |
| Avangrid Renewables - El Cabo | Encino | Electric power generation, w | F | 7.1 |
| ABC Las Cruces | Mesilla Park | Beverage bases merchant whol | F | 7.1 |
| Kairos Power South West | Albuquerque | Electric power generation, n | F | 7.1 |
| SPD | Sunland Park | General Industry | D | 7.1 |
| Store 1491 | Hobbs | General Merchandise Stores | F | 7.1 |
| Owens & Minor Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Surgical supplies merchant w | F | 7.1 |
| 821 | Clovis | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| 4186-08312 | Albuquerque | Dollar Stores | F | 7.1 |
| Sheriff's Department | Carlsbad | Sheriffs' offices (except co | F | 7.0 |
| USM Store #904 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) | Albuquerque | Supermarket | F | 7.0 |
| Silver Health Care | Silver City | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | D | 7.0 |
| Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces -EVS | Las Cruces | - | D | 7.0 |
| Alamogordo Construction Center | Alamogordo | - | F | 7.0 |
| Duke City Redi Mix LLC | Albuquerque | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | F | 7.0 |
| Nmalb - Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 7.0 |
| Hydro Resources - Mid-Continent, Inc. Las Cruces NM | Las Cruces | Water well drilling, digging | F | 7.0 |
| Wm 4938 | Albuquerque | - | F | 7.0 |
| GH Dairy - Hatch | Deming | Milk production, dairy cattl | D | 7.0 |
| Bradbury Stamm Concrete LLC | Albuquerque | Addition, alteration and ren | F | 7.0 |
| 340127-Abq-Main Office Sta | Albuquerque | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.0 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What New Mexico's safety record means for you
New Mexico averages a TCR of 5.6 - about 2.1× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.