Department stores (except discount department stores) · Puerto Rico

Ponce

Ponce, PR · ~50 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ponce runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade C.

Ponce: 3.4 TCR = 100% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ponce safety composite

Ponce scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Ponce: 0.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

Ponce's TCR rose 5.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Ponce, PR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 100% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #7/24
  • PHOTO Store 0416 Salisbury
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 0416 Salisbury (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ponce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ponce averages 3.4 TCR (100% of the Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS benchmark).

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

Ponce TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=3 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Ponce falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Puerto Rico alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 24 Department stores (except disc employers in Puerto Rico.

Ponce (50 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ponce
Ponce (50 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ponce has more employees than the Department stores (except discount depar median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.4 4.1 4 0 0
2023 3.9 1.3 3 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2019 4.5 2.2 2 0 0
2018 8.8 6.6 4 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · PR · Ponce

1,987 Department stores (except discount department stores) 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 Store 0416 Salisbury 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Younkers 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 1963 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STR0014 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE LUMA, Ponce 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE HBS 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Expressway Graphics Corp 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4016-10064000 50 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 Thomas Gleason Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseton Generating LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 029 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitmore Lake 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bose Otay Warehouse 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE TH Plastics - Admin 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metallic Products Corporation 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axon 50 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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