An Overview of Geomechanics Safety Research on Mobile Roof Supports

Details

• Journal Article:
  Proceedings of the 17th International System Safety Conference
• Personal Author:
  Maleki, Hamid N. ; Owens, John K. ; Howie, Wayne L.
• Description:
  After an analysis of the hazards of room-and-pillar retreat mining systems, it became apparent that safety could be significantly improved by considerations of (1) human factors, (2) remotely controlled mobile roof supports (mrs's), (3) mine layout designs, and (4) ground monitoring systems. Initial studies of the effectiveness of mrs's focused on their interaction with mine strata and evaluations of suitable measurements for detecting roof stability problems during pillar extraction. These studies indicated that overall stress distributions and strata movement were most influenced by the stiffness of coal-measure rocks and the design of mining layouts. Thus, to improve worker safety, mine layouts should be carefully designed and a pillar extraction method chosen for specific geologic and stress conditions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Engineering Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Room-and-pillar-mining; Ground-control; Ground-stability; Monitoring-systems; Engineering-controls; Injury-prevention; Accident-prevention
• Source:
  Proceedings of the 17th International System Safety Conference. Unionville, VA: System Safety Society, 1999 Jan; :1-10
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  System Safety Society
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  10 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10006003
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Spokane Research Laboratory, 315 E. Montgomery, Spokane, WA 99207
• Email:
  jdo4@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:03cede2490dca7ed1dd48bc3bcb256025e410970f22bcaf1164d583a57abd452bae00a2120cf821e623d0b94550bc6c7cf78e5fbfe436090131c5c0424adf42c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/8549/cdc_8549_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 298.07 KB ]