Employee was replacing a 120 pound grease drum on fuel truck. Employee decide to load grease drum by self without help and use of equipment resulting in strained lower back. Safety Manual states ""Learn to lift the correct way, bend knees, keep back erect, and get help for heavy loads"". Job description states ""Able to lift up to 70 pounds"".
Garcia 833 MineMetal/Nonmetal
Garcia Mining Company LLC · Surface
Controlled by Garcia Family Farm LLC
Clewiston, Hendry County, FL · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0801427
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2021–2025
- Latest incident
- May 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2025 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
2022 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
While changing the spray bar pump, they removed the first pump and prepped to install the replacement pump. The pump was on forks of the 908 FEL, positioning to slide the pump from the forks to the pump stand. When the pump was slid off the forks, 1 ft. away, EE's knee buckled to the left breaking a bone in EE's leg.
2021 · 2 incidents
Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
Employee was relocating dredge and got stung by 20 - 30 bees resulting in Anaphylaxis.
Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
Employee was pulling on a mechanism when EE felt a pop in EE's lower back.