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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 28 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Campus | Salinas | Seed bed preparing | A | 0.2 |
| ALPROEM Engineering Contractors Corp./ABBVIE BARCELONETA | Barceloneta | Industrial building (except | A | 0.2 |
| TEVA Puerto Rico, LLC. | Fajardo | Birth control pills manufact | A | 0.2 |
| Corco | Penuelas | Bulk petroleum storage | A | 0.2 |
| Eagle Industries Del Caribe, Inc. | Lares | Bags, textile, made from pur | A | 0.2 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation US PR Aguadilla Avenida Jardin (5292) | Aguadilla | Customer service call center | A | 0.2 |
| Becton Dickinson Caribe LTD.- Biosciences | Cayey | Enzyme and isoenzyme in-vitr | A | 0.2 |
| AMO Puerto Rico Manurfacturing, Inc. | Anasco | Lenses, ophthalmic, manufact | A | 0.2 |
| SNJNPR70 | San Juan | Wireless Telecommunications | A | 0.2 |
| Prime Health Services, Inc. | Mercedita | Building cleaning services, | A | 0.2 |
| Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC / Viatris - Vega Baja | Vega Baja | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.1 |
| Policia Municipal | San Lorenzo | General services departments | A | 0.1 |
| Angelitos Brillantes Y Pilar Mangual Espino | San Lorenzo Pr | General services departments | A | 0.1 |
| Hewlett Packard Caribe BV | Aguadilla | Computer servers manufacturi | A | 0.1 |
| Janssen Manati | Manati | - | A | 0.1 |
| Ethicon, LLC | Guaynabo | Needles, hypodermic and sutu | A | 0.1 |
| Pilar Mangual | San Lorenzo Pr | General services departments | A | 0.1 |
| USSC | Ponce | Anesthesia apparatus manufac | A | 0.1 |
| AGD | Aguadilla | Computer servers manufacturi | A | 0.1 |
| Honeywell Aerospace PR- Moca | Moca | Engineering design services | A | 0.1 |
| Honeywell Aerospace PR- Aguadilla | Aguadilla, | Engineering consulting servi | A | 0.1 |
| Prime Janitorial Metro & Health, Inc. | Mercedita | Building cleaning services, | A | 0.1 |
| AbbVie APL | Barceloneta | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.1 |
| Barceloneta | Barceloneta | Electrical Contractors and O | A | 0.1 |
| Angelitos Brillantes Espino | San Lorenzo | General services departments | A | 0.1 |
| Arte Y Cultura | San Lorenzo | General services departments | A | 0.1 |
| Hamilton Sundstrand de Puerto Rico, Inc | Puerto Rico | Electric generators and sub | A | 0.1 |
| San Juan, PR | San Juan | Engineering consulting servi | A | 0.1 |
| AV Barceloneta | Barceloneta | Surgical and Medical Instrum | A | 0.1 |
| Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital of San Juan | San Juan | Physical rehabilitation hosp | A | 0.1 |
| Baxter Aibonito | Aibonito | Anesthesia apparatus manufac | A | 0.1 |
| HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Manati | Manati | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | A | 0.1 |
| Encompasshealth Rehabilitation Hospital of San Juan | San Juan | Physical rehabilitation hosp | A | 0.1 |
| Janssen Ortho LLC-Gurabo | Gurabo | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.1 |
| BASF Agricultural Products de PR | Manati | Herbicides manufacturing | A | 0.1 |
| Aibontio, Puerto Rico | Aibonito | IV apparatus manufacturing | A | 0.1 |
| Expressway Graphics Corp | Arecibo | Printing plate preparation s | A | 0.0 |
| Mangual Office Cleaning | San Juan | Janitorial services | A | 0.0 |
| New York Foundling | San Juan | Adoption services, child | A | 0.0 |
| Hosec Engineering | San Juan | Low voltage electrical work | C | 0.0 |
| Nternational & Medical Caribbean | Guyanabo | Druggists' sundries merchant | C | 0.0 |
| Metropistas - Tecnologia | Carolina | Alarm system monitoring serv | C | 0.0 |
| CLARO / PRT - Tienda Plaza del Oeste | San German | Telecommunications carriers, | C | 0.0 |
| First Bank PIS | Varios | Janitorial services | C | 0.0 |
| MGM Optical Laboratory Inc. | Caguas | Eyeglass frames (i.e., front | C | 0.0 |
| Municipio Autonomo De Caguas / Oficina Municipal De Emergencias Medicas | Caguas | Mayor's offices | C | 0.0 |
| Departamento De Movilidad Ciudadana - Terminal Francisco Pereira 14155 02 | Caguas | Mayor's offices | C | 0.0 |
| Negociado Maritimo - Puertos y Conservacion | San Juan | Maintenance services, waterf | C | 0.0 |
| Pratt & Whitney Puerto Rico | Aguadilla | Applications software progra | C | 0.0 |
| Best Petroleum Corp. Bulk Terminal | Guaynabo | Gasoline bulk stations and t | C | 0.0 |
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.