Mining Incidents

American Rock Pit No 1: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

American Rock Inc · Surface
Controlled by Borron Celestino
Miami-Dade County, FL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0801067

MSHA record for American Rock Pit No 1 (mine ID 0801067). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1989–1990
Latest incident
Mar 1990
Ownership history
  1. American Rock Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

American Rock Pit No 1 sits in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Miami-Dade County, Florida · Population 2,685,296
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$68,694
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1990 · 2 incidents

March 9, 1990 FL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
American Rock Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

TWO MEN WAS LIFTING A 35 GALLONS DRUM OF GREASE TO TAKE IT TO THE DRAGLINE WHEN ONE OF THEM TRIP LIVING ALL THE WEIGHT TO THE OTHER MAN THE OWN THAT GOT INJURY.

January 13, 1990 FL · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
American Rock Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

TRIED TO OP RADIATOR CAP WATER BURNED OFF MY LEFT LEG AND FACE

1989 · 1 incident

February 6, 1989 FL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
American Rock Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

BOULDER GOT STUCK INSIDE CRUSHER EMPLOYEE WENT WITH FOREMAN INTO THE CRUSHER TO REMOVE THE BOULDER & ROCKS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT THE ROCK TO REMOVE FROM ITS ACKWARD POSITION EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN BE LOW RT SIDE OF ABDOMEN THRU TO THE RT LEG CONTINED WORKING UNTIL 1030AM AT THIS TIME FELT TOO MUCH PAIN & WENT TO THE DOCTOR