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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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 24 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patheon Thermo Fisher | Manati | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 1.1 |
| Liberty Guaynabo CO | Guaynabo | Long-distance telephone carr | D | 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 |
| LUMA, Ponce Customer Experience | Ponce | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.1 |
| Pavarini Construction & Development, LLC | Humacao | Residential construction, si | A | 1.1 |
| Torre Sur Minillas | San Juan | Construction management, hig | A | 1.1 |
| CN Arecibo | Arecibo | Medical Device Manufacturer | A | 1.1 |
| IDI Caribe, Inc. | Aguirre | Thermosetting plastics resin | A | 1.1 |
| SM - Lutron S.M. Inc | Humacao | Wiring Device Manufacturing | A | 1.1 |
| Hacienda del Mar Resort | Dorado | Hotel management services (i | 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 |
| Puerto Rico Distribution Center | Calano | Private warehousing and stor | 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 |
| Municipio Las Marias (Centro Geriatrico) | Las Marias | Mayor's offices | A | 1.0 |
| Omme/Emergencias Medicas | Yauco | General public administratio | A | 1.0 |
| Stryker Puerto Rico LLC | Arroyo | Instruments, mechanical micr | A | 1.0 |
| Region Sur y Laboratorio | San Juan | Construction management, hig | A | 1.0 |
| Caribbean Refrescos, Inc. | Cidra | Beverage bases manufacturing | 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 |
| 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 |
| Johnson Controls Inc. | Guaynabo | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 0.9 |
| Becton Dickinson Caribe LTD | Cayey | Blood derivative in-vitro di | A | 0.9 |
| Trujillo Alto Online | Trujillo Alto | Supermarkets | A | 0.9 |
| Aerometalica Corporation | Ponce | Condominium, single-family, | A | 0.9 |
| LUMA, Palo Seco, Fleet, Operations and Warehouse | Toa Baja | Distribution of electric pow | B | 0.9 |
| SH Caguas PR | Caguas | Surgical and Medical Instrum | A | 0.9 |
| Grid Solutions : GA - ANA- Anasco, PR, USA | Anasco | - | A | 0.9 |
| BVI Gas, Inc. | Hormigueros | Alternative fuels, direct se | A | 0.9 |
| Delta Air Lines - SJU | Carolina | Scheduled Air Transportation | A | 0.9 |
| TPI Manati | Manati | Administrative courts | A | 0.9 |
| West Contract Manufacturing | Cidra | Molds for forming materials | A | 0.9 |
| BD Caribe LTD Juncos | Juncos | Anesthesia apparatus manufac | A | 0.9 |
| Magnolia Gardens | Bayamon | Supermarkets | 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 |
| Pridco Las Flores Ind Park Rio Grande PR | Rio Grande | - | A | 0.9 |
| Universidad Ana G. Mendez - Yabucoa | Yabucoa | Universities | B | 0.9 |
| CIC Construction Group, S.E. | Guaynabo | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.9 |
| Plaza Las Americas | San Juan | Furniture and appliance stor | A | 0.9 |
| Safe Harbor Puerto Del Rey | Fajardo | Ship repair done in a shipya | A | 0.8 |
| McNeil Health Care, LLC | Las Piedras | Analgesic preparations manuf | A | 0.8 |
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.