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Puerto Rico workplace safety
How 1,632 OSHA-reporting employers across Puerto Rico compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,632
- Employers
- 5.2
- Avg TCR
- 27,661
- Injuries
- 27
- Fatalities
The state picture
Puerto Rico's 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 · per 100 workers
- 1,632
- employers reporting
- 27,661
- recordable injuries
- 27
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Puerto Rico is #22 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #43 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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 24 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auro PR Inc | Caguas | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 1.1 |
| Patheon Thermo Fisher | Manati | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 1.1 |
| WestRock Puerto Rico Inc | Guaynabo | Corrugated and Solid Fiber B | A | 1.1 |
| Pepe Ganga Central | Hato Rey | Department stores (except di | A | 1.1 |
| Scotiabank Tower | San Juan | Banking, central | F | 1.1 |
| Pavarini Construction & Development, LLC | Humacao | Residential construction, si | A | 1.1 |
| LUMA, Ponce Customer Experience | Ponce | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.1 |
| Torre Sur Minillas | San Juan | Construction management, hig | A | 1.1 |
| CN Arecibo | Arecibo | Medical Device Manufacturer | A | 1.1 |
| SM - Lutron S.M. Inc | Humacao | Wiring Device Manufacturing | A | 1.1 |
| IDI Caribe, Inc. | Aguirre | Thermosetting plastics resin | A | 1.1 |
| Hacienda del Mar Resort | Dorado | Hotel management services (i | A | 1.1 |
| Puerto Rico Distribution Center | Calano | Private warehousing and stor | A | 1.1 |
| Vega Baja - Cabo Caribe Ind Pk #32&34 S1296-0-80 (A Terminals) | Vega Baja | Current-Carrying Wiring Devi | A | 1.1 |
| Campamento Gurabo | Gurabo | Communication tower construc | A | 1.0 |
| Ethicon, LLC | San Lorenzo | Needles, hypodermic and sutu | A | 1.0 |
| Medical Sciences Campus | San Juan | Universities | B | 1.0 |
| Omme/Emergencias Medicas | Yauco | General public administratio | A | 1.0 |
| Municipio Las Marias (Centro Geriatrico) | Las Marias | Mayor's offices | A | 1.0 |
| Stryker Puerto Rico LLC | Arroyo | Instruments, mechanical micr | A | 1.0 |
| Negociado Maritimo - Muelle 15 y 16 | San Juan | Waterfront terminal operatio | A | 1.0 |
| Prpnc - Ponce Center | Ponce | Couriers and Express Deliver | A | 1.0 |
| Caribbean Refrescos, Inc. | Cidra | Beverage bases manufacturing | A | 1.0 |
| Region Sur y Laboratorio | San Juan | Construction management, hig | A | 1.0 |
| Brand Energy Infrastructure Services of Puerto Rico Corp. - 291 - Puerto Rico Branch | Carolina | Scaffold erecting and disman | A | 1.0 |
| Wieland Metal Services Caribe, LLC | Caguas | Metals service centers | A | 1.0 |
| Vivo Beach Club | San Juan | Concert promoters with facil | A | 1.0 |
| America Cruise Ferries | Mayaguez | Cruise lines (i.e., deep sea | A | 0.9 |
| Coliseo Raul Pipote Oliveras/Finanzas/Oficalcalde/Recdeporrtes/Primeradama/Controlambiental | Yauco | General public administratio | A | 0.9 |
| Becton Dickinson Caribe LTD | Cayey | Blood derivative in-vitro di | A | 0.9 |
| Johnson Controls Inc. | Guaynabo | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 0.9 |
| Trujillo Alto Online | Trujillo Alto | Supermarkets | A | 0.9 |
| Aerometalica Corporation | Ponce | Condominium, single-family, | A | 0.9 |
| SH Caguas PR | Caguas | Surgical and Medical Instrum | A | 0.9 |
| LUMA, Palo Seco, Fleet, Operations and Warehouse | Toa Baja | Distribution of electric pow | B | 0.9 |
| TPI Manati | Manati | Administrative courts | A | 0.9 |
| Delta Air Lines - SJU | Carolina | Scheduled Air Transportation | A | 0.9 |
| BVI Gas, Inc. | Hormigueros | Alternative fuels, direct se | A | 0.9 |
| Grid Solutions : GA - ANA- Anasco, PR, USA | Anasco | - | A | 0.9 |
| Magnolia Gardens | Bayamon | Supermarkets | A | 0.9 |
| BD Caribe LTD Juncos | Juncos | Anesthesia apparatus manufac | A | 0.9 |
| West Contract Manufacturing | Cidra | Molds for forming materials | A | 0.9 |
| Universidad Ana G. Mendez - Yabucoa | Yabucoa | Universities | B | 0.9 |
| Pridco Las Flores Ind Park Rio Grande PR | Rio Grande | - | A | 0.9 |
| Otis Elevator Company-Puerto Rico | San Juan | ElevatorEscalator-Installati | A | 0.9 |
| Cardinal Health 120 PR | Guaynabo | Antibiotics merchant wholesa | A | 0.9 |
| Plaza Las Americas | San Juan | Furniture and appliance stor | A | 0.9 |
| CIC Construction Group, S.E. | Guaynabo | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.9 |
| Safe Harbor Puerto Del Rey | Fajardo | Ship repair done in a shipya | A | 0.8 |
| 10064000 10064000-Abdc Puerto Rico | Guaynabo | Wholesale Trade | A | 0.8 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Puerto Rico's safety record means for you
Puerto Rico averages a TCR of 5.2 - about 1.9× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
- Look up a specific Puerto Rico 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.