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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 7 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLARO / PRT - Centro de Operaciones Bairoa | Caguas | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.9 |
| 21-Jardines De Montellano | San Juan | Home improvement (e.g., addi | F | 7.9 |
| Liberty San Juan | San Juan | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.9 |
| Carolina Building Materials Inc. | Carolina | Metals service centers | F | 7.9 |
| Centro Liquidacion Bayamon | Bayamon | Furniture and appliance stor | F | 7.9 |
| 041 Rio Bayamon | Bayamon | Fast-food restaurants | F | 7.9 |
| Hospital Hima San Pablo Cupey | San Juan | General medical and surgical | C | 7.9 |
| Jardin Botanico y Cultural William Miranda Marin | Caguas | Botanical gardens | F | 7.8 |
| Hospital Pavia Yauco | Yauco | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 7.8 |
| Gobierno Municipal De Isabela | Isabela | Mayor's offices | F | 7.8 |
| 14-Lagos De Blasina | San Juan | Home improvement (e.g., addi | F | 7.8 |
| Autoridad de los Puertos de Puerto Rico/Aeropuerto Jose Aponte de la Torre | Ceiba | Passenger air transportation | D | 7.8 |
| Meson Sandwiches 024 | Fajardo | Fast-food restaurants | F | 7.8 |
| Ponce Plaza del Caribe | Ponce | Banking, central | F | 7.8 |
| Nova Infusion | Caguas | Home nursing services, priva | F | 7.8 |
| Tesoro en Maderas II, Inc | Carolina | Hardware stores | F | 7.8 |
| 428474-Sju-Hato Rey Sta | San Juan | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.8 |
| CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Utuado | Utuado | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.7 |
| Copan Industries Inc. | Aguadilla | Laboratory-type sample prepa | F | 7.7 |
| Departamento De Conservacion De Edificios (Sioc) - Almacen De Materiales | Caguas | Mayor's offices | F | 7.7 |
| TPI Fajardo | Fajardo | Administrative courts | F | 7.6 |
| Catano | Catano | Industrial gases manufacturi | F | 7.6 |
| Multicoop Del Oeste Inc. | Aguada | Supermarkets | F | 7.6 |
| CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Rio Grande Montano | Rio Grande | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.5 |
| 023 Plaza del Sol | Bayamon | Restaurants, fast food | F | 7.5 |
| 38-Jardines De Campo Rico | San Juan | Home improvement (e.g., addi | D | 7.5 |
| CLARO / PRT - CAC Plaza Las Americas | San Juan | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.5 |
| Rodriguez Plumbing Contractors, Inc. | San Juan | Plumbing contractors | F | 7.5 |
| CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Las Americas | San Juan | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.5 |
| 006 Plaza del Caribe | Ponce | Fast-food restaurants | F | 7.5 |
| Wireless Computer World Corp | Isabela | Network systems integration | F | 7.5 |
| Dominos | Carolina | Fast-food restaurants | F | 7.4 |
| CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Lomas Verdes | Bayamon | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.4 |
| Rovira Biscuit Corp. | Ponce | Bakery products, dry (e.g., | F | 7.4 |
| 029 Ponce Monte Town (Ponce III) | Ponce | Fast-food restaurants | F | 7.4 |
| CLARO / PRT - Aguadilla CO (Cuesta Vieja) | Aguadilla | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.4 |
| Hospital Hima San Pablo Humacao | Humacao | Hospital and medical service | F | 7.4 |
| Empresas Berrios Cobros Y Credito | Cidra | Furniture and appliance stor | F | 7.4 |
| Landfill Technologies Vrs. Toa Baja | Gurabo | Landfills | F | 7.4 |
| 43-BRIGADAS | San Juan | Home improvement (e.g., addi | D | 7.4 |
| Viejo San Juan | San Juan | Supermarkets | F | 7.3 |
| 035 Dorado | Dorado | Restaurants, fast food | F | 7.3 |
| 425941-May-Marina Sta | Mayaguez | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.3 |
| Specialty Quality Cleaners, Inc | Luquillo | Agents, laundry and dryclean | F | 7.3 |
| Pan American Grain Company-Arecibo | Arecibo | Flour mills, cereals grains | F | 7.3 |
| Centro Para Envejecientes | Palmer | Retirement homes with nursin | C | 7.3 |
| San Francisco | San Juan | Supermarkets | F | 7.3 |
| 036 Guaynabo | Guaynabo | Fast-food restaurants | F | 7.3 |
| CLARO / PRT - Carolina CO | Carolina | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 7.3 |
| TPI Utuado | Utuado | Administrative courts | F | 7.3 |
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.