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Puerto Rico workplace safety

Name: Puerto Rico Employer Workplace Safety Data
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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).

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

1,632
Employers: 5.2
Avg TCR (rated): 27,661
Injuries (all): 27
Fatalities (all)

TCR, interpreted

Far above average

5.2 avg TCR

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.

Puerto Rico grade distribution 1,628 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Puerto 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

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Employer	City	Industry	Grade	Avg TCR
Ethicon LLC San Lorenzo	San Lorenzo	Needles, hypodermic and sutu	A	0.8
10064000 10064000-Abdc Puerto Rico	Guaynabo	Wholesale Trade	A	0.8
Liberty Bayamon	Bayamon	Telecommunications carriers,	C	0.8
Ethicon Endo Surgery LLC	San Lorenzo	Sutures, surgical, manufactu	A	0.8
Del Valle Group	Toa Baja	Pavement, highway, road, str	A	0.8
CooperVision Caribbean Corp	Juana Diaz	Lenses, ophthalmic, manufact	A	0.8
Cardinal Health Pr 220 Inc	Guaynabo	Medical sundries, rubber, me	A	0.8
Fraticelli Trucking Company, Inc.	Penuelas	General freight trucking, lo	A	0.8
EcoElectrica, LP	Penuelas	Electric power generation, f	B	0.8
CooperVision Manufacturing Puerto Rico LLC	Juana Diaz	Lenses, ophthalmic, manufact	A	0.8
McNeil Helath Care, LLC	Las Piedras	Analgesic preparations manuf	A	0.8
Internova Electrical Contractor	San Juan	Electrical contractors	A	0.8
Jr Insulation Sales & Service, Inc	Penuelas	Insulation contractors	A	0.8
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare	Guayama	Nonprescription drug prepara	A	0.8
Las Piedras	Las Piedras	-	A	0.8
Eaton Corporation	Canovanas	Switchgear and switchgear ac	A	0.8
Grainger Caribbe : 0D01	Catano	Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl	A	0.8
Prtbj - Bayamon Center	Toa Bajas	Couriers and Express Deliver	A	0.8
BP Blowmolding	Cayey	Blow molding machinery for p	A	0.8
Action Service Corp	San Juan	Janitorial services	A	0.8
MFG-Arecibo-Puerto Rico	Arecibo	Refrigeration units, truck-t	A	0.8
3687	Juncos	Supermarkets and Other Groce	A	0.8
Bristol-Myers Squibb Manufacturing Company	Humacao	Pharmaceutical preparations	A	0.7
Nypro, Inc	Cayey	Badges, plastics, manufactur	A	0.7
Terumo Puerto Rico LLC	Caguas	Sutures, surgical, manufactu	A	0.7
Universidad Ana G. Mendez - Yauco	Yauco	Universities	B	0.7
Transport Solutions NA and EMEA : MFG-Arecibo-Puerto Rico	Arecibo	-	A	0.7
Catano, Puerto Rico - Replenishment Cntr	Catano	General warehousing and stor	A	0.7
Liberty San Roberto	San Juan	Long-distance telephone carr	C	0.7
Cediprof	Caguas	Biotechnology research and d	D	0.7
Manejo De Emergencias	San Lorenzo	General services departments	A	0.7
3694	San Lorenzo	Supermarkets and Other Groce	A	0.7
7080-Juana Diaz, PR (Monsanto Co.)	Juana Diaz	Postharvest Crop Activities	A	0.7
Best Petroleum Corp.	Toa Baja	Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi	A	0.7
LUMA, Santurce	San Juan	Distribution of electric pow	B	0.7
Baxter Guayama	Guayama	Anesthetic preparations manu	A	0.7
3669	Bayamon	Supermarkets and Other Groce	A	0.7
CARDINAL HEALTH PS San Lucas	Ponce	Institutional pharmacies, on	A	0.7
8060603 Professional Account Management LLC	Guaynabo	Staffing	A	0.7
Recreacion Y Deportes	San Lorenzo	General services departments	A	0.7
Obras Publicas Municipal Y Transportacion Samaritana	San Lorenzo Pr	General services departments	A	0.7
4016-10064000	Guaynabo	Wholesale Trade	A	0.7
CLARO / PRT - CAC San Patricio	Guaynabo	Telecommunications carriers,	C	0.7
Il Nuovo Mercato	San Juan	Restaurants, full service	A	0.7
HBSHSEPR02	Guaynabo	Electrical, electrical wirin	A	0.6
McNeil Las Piedras	Las Piedras	-	A	0.6
Commonwealth Oil Refining Company, Inc.	Penuelas	Bulk petroleum storage	A	0.6
Universidad Ana G. Mendez - Ponce	Ponce	Universities	A	0.6
Lilly Del Carbe Inc Carolina	Carolina	Pharmaceutical Preparation M	A	0.6
Lilly Del Carbe Inc - Carolina	Carolina	Pharmaceutical Preparation M	A	0.6

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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).

New York TCR 5.2 Delaware TCR 5.3 Utah TCR 5.3 Arizona TCR 5.3

Similar employer inventory

Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,632 here).

Rhode Island 1,610 emp. North Dakota 1,696 emp. Alaska 1,558 emp. Montana 1,536 emp.

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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.