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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 6 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayamon Gdns_1433970 | Bayamon | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.7 |
| Oficina Municipal Manejo de Emergencia (OMME) | Patillas | Mayor's offices | F | 8.7 |
| Ramey 11-16 | Aguadilla | Habilitation job counseling | F | 8.7 |
| Manufacturing Plant, Destileria Serralles Inc | Ponce | Distilleries | F | 8.7 |
| 009 Plaza Carolina | Carolina | Restaurants, fast food | F | 8.7 |
| CLARO / PRT - Centro de Operaciones San German | San German | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 8.7 |
| Guaynabo Recycling | Gurabo | Recyclable material collecti | F | 8.7 |
| 39-Jardines De Cupey | San Juan | Home improvement (e.g., addi | F | 8.6 |
| TPI Yauco | Yauco | Administrative courts | F | 8.6 |
| SERVICENTRO | Cidra | Furniture and appliance stor | F | 8.6 |
| Meson Sandwiches 027 | Bayamon | Fast-food restaurants | F | 8.6 |
| Hospital Ryder Memorial Inc. | Humacao | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 8.5 |
| TPI Mayaguez | Mayaguez | Administrative courts | F | 8.5 |
| Jerusalen Home Ambulance Inc | Caguas | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 8.5 |
| Pepe Ganga Cidra | Cidra | Department stores (except di | F | 8.5 |
| J Torres Wooden Pallets | Dorado | Pallet containers, wood or w | F | 8.5 |
| Hospital Dr. Pila Ponce | Ponce | Janitorial services | D | 8.5 |
| TPI Ponce | Ponce | Administrative courts | F | 8.5 |
| Centro Ambulatorio Hima San Pablo Caguas | Caguas | General medical and surgical | C | 8.5 |
| Departamento De Reciclaje Y Saneamiento (Sioc) 14110 | Caguas | Mayor's offices | F | 8.4 |
| Municipio de Las Marias (Policia Municipal) | Las Marias | Mayor's offices | F | 8.4 |
| CAPARRA | Guaynabo | Supermarkets | F | 8.4 |
| Conwaste San Sebastian | Gurabo | Recyclable material hauling, | F | 8.4 |
| Prare - Arecibo | Santana-Arecibo | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 8.4 |
| 2346 | Toa Baja | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 8.4 |
| Security Sistems Services | Carolina | Alarm systems sales combined | F | 8.4 |
| 421800-Canovanas Po | Canovanas | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.4 |
| Municipio de Loiza | Loiza | Executive offices, federal, | F | 8.4 |
| Hospital Menonita Caguas PIS | Caguas | Janitorial services | D | 8.4 |
| 003 Plaza Las Americas | San Juan | Restaurants, fast food | F | 8.3 |
| Aeropuerto Fernando L. Ribas Dominicci | San Juan | Passenger air transportation | D | 8.3 |
| Power Precast Products | Rio Grande | Pipe, concrete, manufacturin | F | 8.3 |
| TPI Carolina | Carolina | Administrative courts | F | 8.3 |
| Log San Juan_1557992 | San Juan | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.3 |
| 018 Plaza Escorial | Carolina | Restaurants, fast food | F | 8.2 |
| Caribbean Produce Exchange | Catano | Vegetables, fresh, merchant | F | 8.2 |
| Suiza Dairy Rio Piedras | San Juan | Milk, fluid (except canned), | F | 8.2 |
| The House | San Juan | Supermarkets | F | 8.2 |
| Sucursal Hato Rey | Hato Rey | Furniture and appliance stor | F | 8.2 |
| ASPIRA Inc. de Puerto Rico | Carolina | Academic tutoring services | F | 8.2 |
| 030 Cabo Rojo (Galeria 100 Shopping) | Cabo Rojo | Restaurants, fast food | F | 8.1 |
| Corporacion de Servicios Medicos Primarios y Prevencion de Arecibo | Arecibo | Health screening services in | F | 8.1 |
| Autoridad de los Puertos de Puerto Rico/Negociado Maritimo | San Juan | Port facility operation | D | 8.1 |
| Island Finance Lomas Verdes Bayamon | Bayamon | Small loan companies (i.e., | F | 8.1 |
| 038 San Sebastian | San Sebastian | Fast-food restaurants | F | 8.0 |
| Antilles Roofing Co., Inc. | San Juan | Roofing contractors | F | 8.0 |
| Manufacturing Plant, Destileria Serralles Inc | Mercedita | Distilleries | F | 8.0 |
| Petro Taino Transport Corp | Penuelas | Bulk liquids trucking, local | D | 8.0 |
| CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Mayaguez | Mayaguez | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.9 |
| Coca Cola Puerto Rico Bottler Aguadilla | Aguadilla | Water, bottled (except water | F | 7.9 |
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
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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.