Mining Incidents

LOS COCOS MINEMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Pablo R Morales
Toa Alta, Bayamon County, PR · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5400069
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2001–2011
Latest incident
Oct 2011
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2011 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The Injured was putting a joint under a truck and when he got out from the bottom of the truck and stood up he couldn't move because he felt a strong pain from his waist to his neck. He also felt that his two arms were sleepy and his hands couldn't close completely because he had them swell.

2010 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

The illness person was helping another ee to cut a piece of metal with an oxyacetylene burner. When they were cutting the piece of metal it bent and with the burner he burnt him in the left hand and between his fingers. The illness person went to the hospital the same day.

2008 · 1 incident

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was welding some screws of a transmission in the conveyor of the plant #2 and when he was going to get up, he could not get up, feeling strong pain in the waist and the upper body.

2007 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

The injured EE was working in the heavy machine (D-6) and when he was got off the machine he sat on the floor and had pain in his lower back.

2001 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

THE EE STATES THAT WHILE HE WAS MOVING MATERIAL AT STONE FELT DOWN AND HURT HIS INDEX FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND.