TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.2 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Puerto Rico workplace safety
How 1,632 OSHA-reporting employers across Puerto Rico compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,389 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,632
- Employers
- 5.2
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 27,661
- Injuries (all)
- 27
- Fatalities (all)
Puerto Rico 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)
1,632 45th of 54 higher than 9 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Puerto Rico's 1,389 rated reporting employers average 5.2 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.9 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.2
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 1,389
- rated employers
- 1,632
- all reporting employers
- 27,661
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,632 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 19% B · 9% C · 26% D · 16% F · 30%
30% of Puerto Rico's reporting establishments earn an F and 19% 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 Puerto Rico ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRPuerto Rico's average TCR of 5.2 is lower than 60% 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, Puerto Rico is #22 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,389-employer subset), it's #45 of 54, a 23-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 Puerto Rico Workplaces Compare
Puerto Rico hosts 1,632 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 Puerto Rico cohort, workers have logged 27,661 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,389 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 27 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 Puerto Rico, 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 Puerto Rico, by injury rate
Page 1 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conwaste Recogido Desperdicios Solidos Isabela | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 27.7 |
| Conwaste Recogido Canovanas | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 27.4 |
| Conwaste Recogido Zona 3 | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 25.5 |
| 423510-Fajardo Po | Fajardo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 24.3 |
| Conwaste Recogido SJ Zona-2 | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 23.7 |
| CMS Home Care Oeste | Mayaguez | Home health agencies | F | 23.4 |
| San Juan Pr Mpa2_1565594 | Carolina | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 23.2 |
| Policia de Puerto Rico | San Juan | State police | F | 23.1 |
| Physician Correctional - Centro de Detencion del Oeste en Mayaguezl | Mayaguez | Medical care management serv | F | 22.8 |
| Conwaste Cabo Rojo | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 22.4 |
| Meson Sandwiches 017 | Hatillo | Fast-food restaurants | F | 22.4 |
| Arecibo | Arecibo | Department stores (except di | F | 22.1 |
| Airport Shoppes | Carolina | Restaurants, fast food | F | 21.9 |
| Conwaste Ponce | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 21.6 |
| EC Waste, LLC - Humacao Hauling | Humacao | Waste hauling, local, nonhaz | F | 21.4 |
| Carolina Catering Corp. DBA Sky Caterers | Carolina | Airline food services contra | F | 21.4 |
| Conwaste Recogido Rio Grande | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 20.9 |
| Conservacion y Mantenimiento Autopistas | San Juan | Lawn maintenance services | F | 20.8 |
| CMS Home Care Metro | San Juan | Home health agencies | F | 20.8 |
| Conwaste Recogido Region Toa Baja | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 20.3 |
| 017 Hatillo II | Hatillo | Restaurants, fast food | F | 20.1 |
| Pepe Ganga Mayaguez | San Juan | Department stores (except di | F | 20.0 |
| Ponce Can Comp. | Ponce | Metal cans, light gauge meta | F | 19.9 |
| Conwaste Juana Diaz | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 19.8 |
| Early Head Start San Alfonso | Caguas | Child day care services | F | 19.4 |
| Fideicomiso de Conservacion | San Juan | Conservation advocacy organi | F | 19.1 |
| Simbra Finca Ciclon LLC | Vega Baja | Coffee farming | F | 19.0 |
| Barreto e hijos Inc | Carolina | Supermarket | F | 18.8 |
| Empresa Barreto, Inc | Trujillo Alto | Commissaries, primarily groc | F | 18.8 |
| 002 Mayaguez Mall | Mayaguez | Fast-food restaurants | F | 18.3 |
| Oficina Municipal del Manejo de Emergencias | Fajardo | Disaster preparedness and ma | F | 17.9 |
| 016 Aguadilla Mall | Aguadilla | Restaurants, fast food | F | 17.9 |
| Comfort Planners Mechanical Inc | Hatillo | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | F | 17.9 |
| Physician Hmo Inc. (Hopu) | San Juan | Children's hospitals, specia | F | 17.8 |
| La Frutera | Hormigueros | Beverage (e.g., coffee, juic | F | 17.7 |
| Bahia Beach Resort and Golf Club | Rio Grande | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 17.6 |
| CWS Recogido Luquillo | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 17.5 |
| Conwaste Recogido Desperdicios Solidos Fajardo | Guarbo | Garbage collection services | F | 17.5 |
| Centro Pedro La Santa 14216 03 | Caguas | Mayor's offices | F | 17.5 |
| Departamento De Conservacion De Edificios (Sioc) 14147 | Caguas | Mayor's offices | F | 17.5 |
| FAJARDO_1363061 | Fajardo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 17.4 |
| Meson Sandwiches 025 | Santa Isabel | Fast-food restaurants | F | 17.3 |
| Departamento De Ornato Y Embellecimiento (Sioc) 14128 | Caguas | Mayor's offices | F | 17.1 |
| Empresa Barreto Inc | Trujillo Alro | Supermarket | F | 17.1 |
| Migrant Health Center - San Sebastian | San Sebastian | Community health centers and | F | 17.1 |
| Conwaste Recogido Fajardo | Guarbo | Garbage collection services | F | 16.9 |
| Manejo De Emergencia | Utuado | Civil rights commissions | F | 16.9 |
| 20-Turabo Heights | San Juan | Home improvement (e.g., addi | F | 16.8 |
| Conwaste Recogido Desperdicios Solidos Carolina | Gurabo | Garbage collection services | F | 16.7 |
| Bayamon | Bayamon | Bakeries with baking from fl | F | 16.7 |
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Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Puerto Rico: 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 (5.2 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,632 here).
Look up a Puerto Rico employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.