Mining Incidents

Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc: 26 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jose Terrasa
Caguas, Guayama County, PR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5400272

Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
1988–2000
Latest incident
May 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
26
citations
12
significant & substantial
$4,863
proposed penalties
$4,863
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
28
inspections on record
174
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 174 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-10-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
48.0%
significant & substantial
68.0%
high negligence or reckless
48.0%
reasonably likely or greater
68.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 32.0% moderate, 68.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2001-11-06, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2001-11-06 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 5.87 10 0.59 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-11-06 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 4.68 10 0.47 Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc recorded 4.89 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.

Injury rate, 2000
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
4.89
total case rate
4.89
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
About average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Puerto Rico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.86 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 0
2003 8
2002 8
2001 6
2000 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc sits in Guayama Municipio, Puerto Rico, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Guayama Municipio, Puerto Rico · Population 35,845
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$20,273
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 2,555 3 0 1174.2
2003 Q3 2,683 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,886 3 1 1039.5
2003 Q1 3,052 0 0 0.0
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q4 2,720 2 1 735.3
2002 Q3 2,963 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,198 2 1 476.4
2002 Q1 3,893 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,061 4 3 985.0
2001 Q3 3,281 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,105 2 0 644.1
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 6,650 3 3 451.1
2000 Q3 18,834 1 1 53.1
2000 Q2 7,782 6 2 771.0
2000 Q1 7,624 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2000 · 1 incident

May 4, 2000 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Fall from machine

MAKING REPAIRS ON SHOVEL, GETTING OFF LOST SUPPORT OF SEFT FOOT AND HE HURT THE SAME ONE.

1999 · 3 incidents

September 8, 1999 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE DOING MECHANICAL WORK ON THE EXCAVDOR, HE HURT IS FINGER ON A METAL PLATE.

January 11, 1999 PR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS GETTING OFF LOADER AND THEN STEPPED ON A ROCK AND HURT HIS LEFT LEG.

January 11, 1999 PR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CLEANING, HE HAD TO USE FORCE AND NOW FEELS PAIN IN BACK AND LEFT LEG.

1989 · 3 incidents

August 9, 1989 PR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Fall from machine

INJURED WAS GETTING DOWN FROM 980B LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED, FELL TO THE GROUND. INJURED RIGHT LEG AND LEFT ARM.

April 10, 1989 PR · Metal/Non-Metal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider POWERED HAULAGE
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN A FEEDER, WAS CLEANING THE GRATE WITH A PICKAXE, A PARTICLE FLEW INTO AND LODGED IN HIS RIGHT EYE. 4-11-89 HE LEFT WORK AT 12:00, WENT TO DOCTOR WHO RECOMMENDED HE REST THE 11TH, 12TH, 13TH.

1988 · 2 incidents

June 16, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Unclassified, insufficient data

TRANSLATION: HE WAS BACKING A TRRUCK LOADED WITH ROCK AND TURNED THE TRUCK TOO FAR TO THE LEFT THE GROUND GAVE WAY AND THE TRUCK TURNED OVER

February 3, 1988 PR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Terrassa Sand & Gravel Inc · Fall from machine

VICTIM WAS GETTING OFF FROM END LOADER SLIPPED & INJURED RT.LEG ON THE LADDERS BOTTOM STEP (STIRRUP)