Air passenger carriers, scheduled · Puerto Rico

Aeropuerto Mercedita

Ponce, PR · ~25 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aeropuerto Mercedita runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air passenger carriers, scheduled workplace, earning a grade F.

Aeropuerto Mercedita: 11.1 TCR = 247% of Air passenger carriers, scheduled BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aeropuerto Mercedita safety composite

Aeropuerto Mercedita scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Aeropuerto Mercedita: 8.9 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 24.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Aeropuerto Mercedita's TCR rose 1.4 from 8.9 in 2019 to 10.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 24.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Ponce, PR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 247% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO 2073-EJ-20730175-IF
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2073-EJ-20730175-IF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aeropuerto Mercedita in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Aeropuerto Mercedita averages 11.1 TCR (247% of the Air passenger carriers, scheduled BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Aeropuerto Mercedita TCR series: 2019=8.9 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=8 · 2023=24.3 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Aeropuerto Mercedita falls in its industry

1,568 Air passenger carriers, schedu establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Puerto Rico alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Air passenger carriers, schedu employers in Puerto Rico.

Aeropuerto Mercedita (25 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Aeropuerto Mercedita
Aeropuerto Mercedita (25 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Aeropuerto Mercedita has fewer employees than the Air passenger carriers, scheduled median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 10.3 10.3 3 0 0
2023 24.3 14.6 5 0 0
2022 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2021 6.6 6.6 1 1 0
2020 8.7 8.7 1 0 0
2019 8.9 4.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · PR · Ponce

1,568 Air passenger carriers, scheduled employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,632 rated employers in Puerto Rico with headcount on file · 75 employers in Ponce, PR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 2073-EJ-20730175-IF 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-AA-DTW- DETROIT-DTW-TRML 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-EA-CID-CEDAR RAPIDS-CID-TRML 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSP-GROUND OPS 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE LUMA, Yauco Fleet Operations and Warehouse 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE 14-LAGOS DE BLASINA 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE THE PARTS HOUSE LOC 20 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bed Bath Beyond Bayamon 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR USSC Puerto Rico inc. 1,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR USSC 1,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital Episcopal San Lucas Ponce 1,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2026 675 FTE
NAT-TCR ST-0A 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR R.E. Golden Produce Co, Inc 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR D & L Tooling, Inc. 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rowntree Gardens 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Specialty Products 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Field Service Technician 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Paul Utilities and Excavating, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE JR Manufacturing 25 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.