Mining Incidents

Arenas de Puerto RicoMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Jim Cruz
Humacao, Humacao County, PR · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 5400479
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2025 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

While working with a shovel in the plant area, EE felt a sharp lower back pain.

Struck by falling object

While the employee was working on the hopper area, supposedly a rock felt and hit EE in one of EE's shoulders.

2021 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While installing the drum pulley IE was trying to accommodate the part in the right position, with the help of another EE. EE told the excavator operator, to lift the drum pulley in order to put it in place. Somehow IE had IE's left forearm between the drum pulley and the guards, and IE was smashed, causing small bruise.