TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.6 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
How 2,241 OSHA-reporting employers across New Mexico compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,952 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.6 avg TCR
New Mexico vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
2,241 41st of 54 higher than 13 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
New Mexico's 1,952 rated reporting employers average 5.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 2,241 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
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.
New 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 rated-subset injury rate alone, New Mexico is #39 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,952-employer subset), it's #14 of 54, a 25-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 on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,952 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt County Detention Center | Portales | Not required | F | 19.2 |
| 9288-B70 | Las Cruces | Skilled Nursing Facility | F | 19.1 |
| Trader Joe's 0167 Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Grocery Store | F | 18.9 |
| 6400-SWY-0005-0005-00683 | Farmington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 18.8 |
| YDI Valencia | Los Lunas | Family social service agenci | F | 18.5 |
| 880050000 | Las Cruces | Transportation Air Cargo | F | 18.2 |
| Goodwill Menaul | Albuquerque | Second-hand merchandise stor | F | 18.0 |
| LQ0695 Las Cruces - Mesilla Valley | Las Cruces | Hospitality | F | 17.5 |
| FedEx 98 WEST GATE | Las Cruces | Courier and Express Delivery | F | 17.5 |
| Superior Ambulance Service, Inc. | Albuquerque | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 17.4 |
| Masson Farms of New Mexico, Inc | Radium Springs | - | F | 17.3 |
| Sodexo at Nmsu Golf Course | Las Cruces | Food Service Contractors | F | 17.2 |
| Dependable Masonry LLC | Albuquerque | Masonry contractors | F | 17.2 |
| Southeast NM Community Action Corp- Carlsbad Administration Office | Carlsbad | Business management services | F | 17.2 |
| Albuquerque Equipment & Roofing Supplies, Inc. | Albuquerque | Building materials supply de | F | 17.0 |
| Cost Plus World Market WEST ALBUQUERQUE 6260 | Albuquerque | - | F | 16.9 |
| Big R of Santa Ana Pueblo, LLC. | Santa Ana | Hardware stores | F | 16.8 |
| Glenco, Inc. | Clovis | Fabricated structural metal | F | 16.7 |
| North Ridge Alzheimer's Special Care Center | Albuquerque | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 16.7 |
| The Watermark at Cherry Hills | Albuquerque | Continuing care retirement c | F | 16.7 |
| 505 Logistics | Albuquerque | Delivery service (except as | F | 16.5 |
| 9288-B69 | Las Cruces | Skilled Nursing Facility | F | 16.5 |
| Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Santa Fe, Inc. | Santa Fe | Beverage bases merchant whol | F | 16.4 |
| Lakeview Christian Home of the Southwest | Carlsbad | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 16.3 |
| Office/Plant | Belen | Architectural sculptures, st | F | 16.0 |
| McCoys Building Supply-Carlsbad | Carlsbad | Home centers, building mater | F | 16.0 |
| Hobbs Center (Nmhob) | Hobbs | Courier Services Except by A | F | 16.0 |
| Sombra | Albuquerque | Analgesic preparations manuf | F | 15.8 |
| 9288-B75 | Las Cruces | Skilled Nursing Facility | F | 15.8 |
| Goodwill Paseo | Albuquerque | Second-hand merchandise stor | F | 15.7 |
| Bear Canyon Rehabilitation Center | Albuquerque | Dermatologists' offices (e.g | F | 15.7 |
| Las Palomas Center | Albuquerque | Rest homes with nursing care | F | 15.6 |
| McCoys Building Supply-Las Cruses | Las Cruces | Building materials supply de | F | 15.6 |
| 4535-0334 | Albuquerque | Retail/Home Furnishings | F | 15.5 |
| NMS001 | Santa Fe | Tire Dealers | F | 15.4 |
| Cascade Bottled Water | Farmington | Water, naturally carbonated, | F | 15.4 |
| GH Dairy - Deming | Deming | Milk production, dairy cattl | F | 15.3 |
| 4054-ABS-0017-0016-03913 | Las Cruces | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.3 |
| T& R Feed & Rope Center | Gallup | Feed stores, pet | F | 15.3 |
| ARCA InterCare Service Gibson A & B | Albuquerque | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 15.3 |
| Clearance Corner | Albuquerque | Habilitation job counseling | F | 15.2 |
| 4795-EA-ABQ-ALBUQUERQUE-ABQ-TRML | Albuquerque | Scheduled passenger air tran | F | 15.2 |
| Ihop 3072 | Hobbs | Full service restaurants | F | 15.1 |
| Abq United Ground Express-Abq | Albuquerque | Other Airport Operations | F | 15.1 |
| Santa Fe Medical Center | Santa Fe | Pathology laboratories, medi | F | 15.1 |
| 6957-ABQ | Albuquerque | Other Airport Operations | F | 15.1 |
| Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital Albuquerque NM | Albuquerque | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | F | 15.0 |
| ARCA InterCare Service Copper A & B | Albuquerque | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 15.0 |
| Lovelace Medical Center | Albuquerque | Hospitals, general medical a | D | 14.9 |
| Nmhob - Hobbs Center | Hobbs | Couriers and Express Deliver | F | 14.8 |
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for New Mexico: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.6 here).
Nearest states by reporting employer count (2,241 here).
Look up a New Mexico employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.