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 9 of 45| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABQ Premier Distributing Company | Albuquerque | Beverages, alcoholic (except | F | 8.1 |
| NAPA Juan Tabo | Albuquerque | Automotive parts and supply | F | 8.1 |
| Portales Select Peanut Co | Portales | Peanut shelling | D | 8.1 |
| The Retreat Healthcare | Rio Rancho | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 8.1 |
| Alamogordo Operations | Alamogordo | Medical Transport | F | 8.1 |
| Brookdale Tramway Ridge | Albuquerque | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 8.1 |
| Richard J Pino_1379202 | Albuquerque | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.1 |
| Choice Steel Company | Albuquerque | Steel merchant wholesalers | F | 8.1 |
| 201 New Mexico Foods | Albequerque | Groceries, general-line, mer | F | 8.1 |
| G&J Brooks Enterprises, Inc. 06EL | Santa Fe | Supermarkets | F | 8.1 |
| Sunset Villa Care Center | Roswell | Nursing homes | D | 8.1 |
| Cost Plus World Market ALBUQUERQUE 6051 | Albuquerque | - | F | 8.1 |
| Mark Carpenter Plumbing, Inc. | Clovis | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 8.1 |
| 0443 - Santa Fe, Nm | Santa Fe | Retail Stores | F | 8.1 |
| Goodwill Roswell | Roswell | Second-hand merchandise stor | F | 8.0 |
| Mesilla Valley Hospice Inc. | Las Cruces | Hospice care services, in ho | D | 8.0 |
| Big Lots Store #4178 LAS CRUCES, NM | Las Cruces | Retail Other | F | 8.0 |
| Alamogordo (Nmala) | Alamogordo | Courier Services Except by A | D | 8.0 |
| NMA005 | Albuquerque | Tire Dealers | F | 8.0 |
| At Home Stores #288 | Albuquerque | Homefurnishings stores | F | 8.0 |
| Atkore United Poly Systems | Albuquerque | Tube, nonrigid plastics, man | F | 8.0 |
| Albuquerque (Nmalq) | Albuquerque | General Freight Trucking Loc | D | 8.0 |
| Unit # 2704 | Albuquerque | Retail | F | 8.0 |
| Commercial Door Manufacturing, Inc. | Albuquerque | Frames, door and window, met | F | 8.0 |
| Plains Regional Medical Center Home Health Care 2217 Dillon | Clovis | Home health agencies | D | 8.0 |
| Roswell Service Center-116 | Roswell | Electric Power Distribution | F | 7.9 |
| El Rey Court | Santa Fe | - | F | 7.9 |
| Albuquerque Embassy Suites | Albuquerque | Hotels and Motels | F | 7.9 |
| Pelletier Construction Inc. | Albuquerque | Drywall contractors | F | 7.9 |
| 1034 - Santa Fe | Santa Fe | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.9 |
| FLETC - Artesia | Artesia | Professional development tra | F | 7.9 |
| 3167 Lowe S of Carlsbad Nm | Carlsbad | Homecenter | F | 7.9 |
| Albuquerque Nm | Albuquerque | RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONSTRU | F | 7.9 |
| Wm 868 | Carlsbad | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.9 |
| Wm 3317 | Albuquerque | - | F | 7.9 |
| USM Store #687 (Albertsons Market) | Carlsbad | Supermarkets | F | 7.9 |
| Residence Inn Santa Fe | Santa Fe | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 7.9 |
| NAPA Auto Parts-Distribution Center | Albuquerque | Auto body shop supplies, mer | F | 7.8 |
| USM Store #682 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) | Ruidoso | Supermarket | F | 7.8 |
| Fulkerson Plumbing & Heating, Co., Inc. | Roswell | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 7.8 |
| Memorial Medical Center | Las Cruces | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 7.8 |
| Swy-0005-0005-01438 Fac-01438-Aztec-Nm | Aztec | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.8 |
| Daughter of Charity of Canossa dba Casa Angelica | Albuquerque | Intermediate care facilities | F | 7.8 |
| 2501 Lowe S of Farmington Nm | Farmington | Homecenter | F | 7.8 |
| Walther Farms NM | Farmington | Potato farming, field and se | D | 7.8 |
| BSI Corp | Albuquerque | Kitchen appliances, househol | F | 7.8 |
| T&R Feed and Rope Center | Gallup | Farm supply stores | F | 7.8 |
| Kph-Trl-Kaseman Hospital | Albuquerque | CLINICAL LABORATORY | F | 7.7 |
| NMR001 | Roswell | Tire Dealers | F | 7.7 |
| Quality Custom Distribution Albuquerque | Albuquerque | General-line groceries merch | F | 7.7 |
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
- Compare this state against the rest of the country. All states
- 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.