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 30 of 45| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 089-Santa Fe | Santa Fe | Grocery Stores | B | 2.3 |
| 4186-02851 | Albuquerque | Dollar Stores | B | 2.3 |
| 71456 | Albuquerque | Department Stores | B | 2.3 |
| Beaty Masonry | Albuquerque | Masonry contractors | C | 2.3 |
| Fg Roswell | Roswell | Lumber Plywood Millwork Wood | C | 2.3 |
| Clariant Corporation | Belen | Desiccants, activated clay, | B | 2.3 |
| Materion - Albuquerque North | Albuquerque | Nonferrous Metal (except Cop | B | 2.3 |
| Anthony New Mexico Plant | Anthony | Urethane foam products manuf | B | 2.3 |
| AUI, Inc. | Albuquerque | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 2.3 |
| 017-CLOVIS | Clovis | Grocery Stores | B | 2.3 |
| 3048 Lowe S of Los Lunas Nm | Los Lunas | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| DKD Electric LLC | Albuquerque | Electrical wiring contractor | C | 2.3 |
| Aztec Well Servicing Co. | Aztec | Directional drilling of oil | D | 2.3 |
| County of Harding | Mosquero | County commissioners | B | 2.3 |
| Rio Rancho Campus | Rio Rancho | Semiconductor devices manufa | B | 2.3 |
| Jack Wayte Construction Co., Inc. | Alamogordo | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.3 |
| Noel Main Office | Albuquerque | Chimney, concrete, construct | C | 2.3 |
| Unit # 0671 | Alamogordo | Retail | B | 2.3 |
| Women's Health OBGYN | Albuquerque | Gynecologists' offices (e.g. | B | 2.3 |
| Weck's Los Lunas | Los Lunas | Family restaurants, full ser | B | 2.3 |
| Albuquerque 39370 | Albuquerque | Landscape Maintenance | B | 2.3 |
| Carlsbad Office | Carlsbad | Petroleum, crude, production | C | 2.3 |
| PMG-Wyoming | Albuquerque | Offices and Clinics of Docto | B | 2.3 |
| 706-00498 | Albuquerque | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.3 |
| Intel US NM Intel Rio Rancho NM NM996 | Rio Rancho | - | C | 2.3 |
| Groendyke Transport - Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | A | 2.3 |
| Pulmonary | Albuquerque | Pulmonary specialists' offic | B | 2.3 |
| Albuquerque ASU and Packaged Gas Plant | Albuquerque | Compressed and liquefied ind | B | 2.3 |
| Luna Energy Facility | Deming | Electric power generation, f | D | 2.3 |
| Sodexo at Nmsu Fm Services | Las Cruces | Facilities Support Services | C | 2.2 |
| NM020 Santa Teresa (Vista Corrugated) | Santa Teresa | - | B | 2.2 |
| 4192-00051484-3202 | Roswell | Lumber & Construction Materi | C | 2.2 |
| Stone Systems of New Mexico | Albuquerque | Cut Stone and Stone Product | B | 2.2 |
| Lectrosonics Inc | Rio Rancho | Amplifiers (e.g., auto, home | B | 2.2 |
| Albquerque Asphalt | Albuquerque | Asphalt paving (i.e., highwa | B | 2.2 |
| 81 | Albuquerque | Drywall and Insulation Contr | B | 2.2 |
| Rustl2-Trl-Rust Hosp Lab - 1st Fl | Rio Rancho | CLINICAL LABORATORY | B | 2.2 |
| Ross store 1370 | Albuquerque | Retail Store | B | 2.2 |
| Aerojet Rocketdyne - Socorro | Socorro | Ammunitions Manufacturing | B | 2.2 |
| Weck's Cottonwood | Albuquerque | Family restaurants, full ser | B | 2.2 |
| 706-00439 | Albuquerque | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.2 |
| Holloman AFB | Holloman Afb | Professional development tra | D | 2.2 |
| Solstice Senior Living at Las Cruces | Las Cruces | Assisted-living facilities w | B | 2.2 |
| dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5220 | Albuquerque | Retail Store | B | 2.2 |
| Big Lots Store #4477 HOBBS, NM | Hobbs | Retail Other | B | 2.2 |
| PSSI - 1002 Stampede Meats - Santa Teresa | Santa Teresa | Janitorial Services | A | 2.2 |
| National Atomic Museum Foundation | Albuquerque | Museums | B | 2.2 |
| Peachtree Village Retirement Community | Roswell | Continuing care retirement c | B | 2.2 |
| Las Estancias | Albuquerque | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | B | 2.2 |
| General Mills (Albuquerque) | Albuquerque | Breakfast cereals manufactur | B | 2.2 |
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.
- Look up a specific New Mexico employer rather than relying on the state average. Look up an employer
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- Understand what the average TCR actually measures before you read it. Understand the rates
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.