TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.6 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
New Mexico workplace safety
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).
- 2,241
- Employers
- 5.6
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 33,716
- Injuries (all)
- 25
- Fatalities (all)
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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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.
- 5.6
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 1,952
- rated employers
- 2,241
- all reporting employers
- 33,716
- recordable injuries (all)
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.
A · 14% B · 11% C · 27% D · 21% F · 26%
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.
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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.
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. 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.
Employers in New Mexico, by injury rate
Page 39 of 45| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 146416 | Albuquerque | Custodial services | A | 0.5 |
| Wyoming Business Center | Albuquerque | Distribution of natural gas | A | 0.5 |
| 023-Gallup-Shop N Save | Gallup | Grocery Stores | A | 0.5 |
| MS - Holloman AFB, NM - 5HON1 (CFT Field Direct) | Holloman Afb | General automotive repair sh | A | 0.5 |
| HALO Services | Bloomfield | Roustabout mining services, | A | 0.5 |
| Pentagon Technologies Rio Rancho | Rio Rancho | Cleaning building interiors | A | 0.5 |
| Artesia | Artesia | Petroleum and petroleum prod | A | 0.5 |
| Calibre Post Acute | Las Cruces | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 0.5 |
| Nuclear Waste Partnership | Carlsbad | Hazardous waste disposal fac | A | 0.5 |
| NM-G | Grants | Home health agencies | A | 0.5 |
| Ramirez and Sons, Inc. | Hobbs | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 0.5 |
| NM003 | Las Cruces | Engineering research and dev | C | 0.5 |
| SDV Main Office | Albuquerque | Commercial building construc | A | 0.4 |
| NA-US-NM-Albuquerque-Bluewater Road NW | Albuquerque | Solar Construction and Desig | A | 0.4 |
| Rinchem Company, Inc. CSC 90-101 | Albuquerque | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 0.4 |
| Employee Services - Corporate Shared Service Ctr | Albuquerque | Corporate offices | B | 0.4 |
| New Mexico Military Institute | Roswell | Junior colleges | A | 0.4 |
| AR Foreman Construction, LLC | Carlsbad | Building lot subdividing | A | 0.4 |
| Delaware East | Loving | - | A | 0.4 |
| New Mexico | Carslbad | Construction management, com | A | 0.4 |
| 053-Raton Nm | Raton | Grocery Stores | A | 0.4 |
| Bradbury Stamm Construction Inc | Albuquerque | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.4 |
| HollyFrontier Navajo Refining LLC | Artesia | Petroleum refineries | A | 0.4 |
| Jacobs - FARMINGTON - OMI | Farmington | Collection, treatment, and d | A | 0.4 |
| STA Technologies Inc | Albuquerque | Inks, printing, manufacturin | A | 0.4 |
| NM1 | Las Cruces | Telephone call centers | A | 0.4 |
| Urenco USA | Eunice | Uranium, enriched, manufactu | A | 0.4 |
| Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc. / Las Cruces | Las Cruces | Thrift shops, used merchandi | A | 0.3 |
| Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc | Artesia | Long-distance telephone carr | A | 0.3 |
| Gallup Refinery | Jamestown | Petroleum Refinery | A | 0.3 |
| Sparling Construction Company | Albuquerque | Anchored earth retention con | A | 0.3 |
| SLS, Grants, NM | Grants | Home health agencies | A | 0.3 |
| Jaynes Corporation - Albuquerque, NM | Albuquerque | Commercial building construc | A | 0.3 |
| Sodexo at New Mexico Junior College | Hobbs | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.3 |
| Creative Work Solutions Emp - Albuquerque | Albuquerque | Habilitation job counseling | A | 0.3 |
| TexMex Rentals & Services | Hobbs | Well servicing, oil and gas | A | 0.3 |
| Alb Power Operations | Albuquerque | - | A | 0.3 |
| NMR Pipeline | Eunice | Oil pipeline construction | A | 0.3 |
| Rinchem Company - Corporate | Albuquerque | General warehousing and stor | A | 0.3 |
| Rinchem Company, Inc. Corporate | Albuquerque | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 0.3 |
| D & L Meters & Instrument Service, Inc. | Lovington | Oil well logging on a contra | A | 0.2 |
| Rio Rancho | Rio Rancho | Workstations, computer, manu | A | 0.2 |
| Navajo Refining Artesia | Artesia | Other Heavy and Civil Engine | A | 0.2 |
| Questa | Questa | Environmental remediation se | A | 0.2 |
| HoneywellNM75 | Albuquerque | Aeronautical systems and ins | A | 0.2 |
| Albuquerque - SES | Albuquerque | Aeronautical systems and ins | A | 0.1 |
| Nm-Aerco-Roswell - Nm | Roswell | MRO | A | 0.1 |
| Employee Services - Corporate Shared Service Center | Albuquerque | Office administration servic | A | 0.1 |
| Sawmill District | Albuquerque | Stage set (e.g., concert, mo | A | 0.1 |
| NM-01 | Albuquerque | Electric power generation, s | A | 0.1 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
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.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.6 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (2,241 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.