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.
LOS COCOS MINEMetal/Nonmetal
Inversiones Del Toa Incorporated · Surface
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 file2011 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
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.