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 37 of 45| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7150 | Deming | Home Health Care Services | A | 1.0 |
| Devon Energy - Artesia NM | Artesia | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.9 |
| Hotel Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 0.9 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation White Sands Campus (1213) | White Sands Missile Range | - | A | 0.9 |
| 3499 - Admin Office | Albuquerque | Centralized administrative o | D | 0.9 |
| Sodexo at New Mexico Military Institute | Roswell | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.9 |
| Riley Industrial Services, Inc. | Farmington | Insulation contractors | A | 0.9 |
| Hotel Encanto | Las Cruces | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 0.9 |
| Big Lots Store #1982 Albuquerque, NM | Albuquerque | Retail Other | A | 0.9 |
| Albuquerque WECO | Albuquerque | Commercial and industrial ma | A | 0.9 |
| CH Mechanical. LLC | Albuquerque | Plumbing contractors | A | 0.9 |
| Sennheiser NM LLC | Albuquerque | Amplifiers (e.g., auto, home | A | 0.9 |
| Vital Consulting Group | Albuquerque | Surfacing, highway, road, st | A | 0.9 |
| Raytheon Dine' Facility | Farmington | Developing and producing pro | A | 0.9 |
| NDX Ideal | Albuquerque | Dental Laboratories | A | 0.9 |
| PNM Aztec Office | Albuquerque | - | B | 0.9 |
| Eastern New Mexico Medical Center - EVS | Roswell | - | A | 0.9 |
| 4192-00051457-514571 | Albuquerque | Modular Office Furniture | A | 0.9 |
| Kirtland AFB | Albuquerque | Construction management, com | A | 0.9 |
| Contact Center | Albuquerque | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 0.9 |
| Hilcorp L48 W | Aztec | Gas, natural, extraction | A | 0.9 |
| PMG-Kaseman | Albuquerque | Offices and Clinics of Docto | A | 0.9 |
| Rinchem Company, Inc. CSC 80 & 81 | Albuquerque | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 0.9 |
| 5934_12920 | Las Cruces | - | A | 0.8 |
| Unit #1693 | Hobbs | Retail | A | 0.8 |
| PMG-GI | Albuquerque | Offices and Clinics of Docto | A | 0.8 |
| TESSCO Carlsbad | Carlsbad | Pole line construction | A | 0.8 |
| IES Communications, LLC - Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.8 |
| Streimer New Mexico | Rio Rancho | Air system balancing and tes | A | 0.8 |
| Albuquerque 137 | Albuquerque | - | A | 0.8 |
| SUMCO Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Silicon wafers, chemically d | A | 0.8 |
| 4256-2184 | Albuquerque | Passenger car rental | B | 0.8 |
| WW-TRL-WOODWARD | Albuquerque | CLINICAL LABORATORY | A | 0.8 |
| PMG-Los Lunas | Los Lunas | Offices and Clinics of Docto | A | 0.8 |
| Amentum Intel Rio Rancho | Rio Rancho | Building cleaning services, | A | 0.8 |
| VRS Albuquerque, NM | Albuquerque | Translation and Interpretati | D | 0.8 |
| New Mexico Tech * | Socorro | - | A | 0.8 |
| Morada Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 0.8 |
| Southeast New Mexico | Carlsbad | Pipeline transportation, gas | A | 0.8 |
| MS - Carlsbad, NM - 1CANM | Carlsbad | Hazardous waste material tre | A | 0.8 |
| Ross store 516 | Albuquerque | Retail Store | A | 0.8 |
| 854 Silver City | Silver City | Skilled Nursing Facility | A | 0.8 |
| Unit #0450 | Gallup | Retail | A | 0.8 |
| 706-00432 | White Rock | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 0.8 |
| Otis Elevator Company-Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Elevator/Escalator-Installat | A | 0.8 |
| PUBLIC SERVICE OF NEW MEXICO - San Juan | Waterflow | Power and Communication Line | A | 0.8 |
| 093-ESPANOLA | Espanola | Grocery Stores | A | 0.8 |
| American Gypsum Company - Bernalillo | Bernalillo | Wallboard, gypsum, manufactu | A | 0.8 |
| AES Belen | Belen | Environmental remediation se | A | 0.8 |
| J B Henderson Construction Company Inc. | Albuquerque | Commercial building construc | A | 0.8 |
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.