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  • Feasibility of Using Intelligent Video for Machine Safety Applications
    Personal Author:
    Ruff, Todd M.
    Published:
    1/1/2008
    Description:
    Researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are studying methods to prevent workers from being entangled in machinery used at mining operations. An analysis of mining accidents in the United States that resulted i...
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    Filetype[PDF - 227.03 KB]
  • Considerations For Using Roof Monitors In Underground Limestone Mines In The USA
    Personal Author:
    Prosser, L. J.; Marshall, Thomas E.; Tadolini, Stephen C.; Iannacchione, Anthony T.; Banta, Cecil;
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    The Pittsburgh Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) endeavors to provide national and world leadership in the prevention of work-related illness, injury, and death. This is accomplished by using a s...
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    Filetype[PDF - 670.97 KB]
  • Mechanics Of A Large, Strain-Type Rock Burst And Design For Prevention
    Personal Author:
    White, Brian G.; Williams, Theodore J.; Whyatt, Jeffrey K.;
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    Detailed mapping and examination of the site of a large rock burst at the Lucky Friday Mine, Mullan, ID, demonstrated conclusively that damage was caused by a splitting and buckling failure mechanism initiated by separation of rock into layers along ...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 277.87 KB]
  • How Smoke Hinders Escape From Coal Mine
    Personal Author:
    Kissell, F. N.; Litton, C. D.;
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    Abstract-This study predicts the level of smoke that miners might meet while trying to escape a coal mine fire and describes how smoke would impede their safe escape. For this study, the authors assumed that miners exit through an escapeway adjacent ...
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    Filetype[PDF - 295.09 KB]
  • Behavior Of A Coal Pillar Prone To Burst In The Southern Appalachian Basin Of The United States
    Personal Author:
    Iannacchione, Anthony
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    One of the more pressing engineering problems for deep longwall mines in the Southern Appalachian Basin is to design longwall systems that will eliminate catastrophic coal pillar failure from the working environment. The purpose of this study is to q...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 517.61 KB]
  • Time and amplitude statistics for electromagnetic noise in mines
    Personal Author:
    Kanda, Motohisa
    Corporate Author:
    Pittsburgh Mining and Safety Research Center.; United States. Bureau of Mines.; United States. National Bureau of Standards. Institute for Basic Standards. Electromagnetics Dvision.;
    Published:
    1974
    Series:
    Open file report (United States. Bureau of Mines) ; 1975-40
    NBSIR ; 74-378
    Description:
    The time and amplitude statistics necessary to adequately describe electromagnetic (EM) noise in mines are illustrated through computer software techniques. They are 1) Allan Variance Analyses (AVA), 2) Interpulse Spacing Distributions (ISD), 3) Puls...
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.79 MB]
  • Chemical-related injuries and illnesses in U.S. mining
    Personal Author:
    Scott, D. F.; Merritt, E. M.; Miller, A. L.; Drake, P. L.;
    Published:
    1/1/2009
    Description:
    The purpose of this study was to determine if miners were at risk from exposures to chemicals used in the mining industry and determine the nature and sources of the illnesses and injuries. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration s (MSHA) empl...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 236.44 KB]
  • Investigation Of The Jacking Force Capability Of Tunnel Liners
    Personal Author:
    Barczak, Thomas M.; Smith, Ron;
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    Steel liner plates, which are bolted together to form a shell, are commonly used to provide temporary protective linings in the tunneling industry to ensure the stability of the tunnel and safety of the workers until more permanent ground reinforceme...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.13 MB]
  • Roof Screening For Underground Coal Mines: Recent Developments
    Personal Author:
    Compton, Craig S.; Gallagher, Sean; Molinda, Gregory M.; Mark, Christopher; Wilson, Gene;
    Published:
    1/1/2009
    Description:
    The failure of the immediate roof or "roof skin" between installed primary and secundary roof supports causes hundreds of injuries and, on average one or two fatalities each year in U.S. underground coal mines. Conventional roof supports cannot cover...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 197.69 KB]
  • Seventy-Two Fatalities Have Occurred at Coal and Metal/Nonmetal Mining Operations Since January 2001; Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association Bulletin February/March 2002
    Published:
    1/1/2002
    Description:
    This article updates the status of fatalities occurring in both coal and metal/nonmetal mines from January through December of 2001. Based on preliminary accident reports, as of December 31, 2001, seventy-two fatalities have occurred at coal and meta...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 684.28 KB]
  • Explosion temperatures of metals and other elemental dust clouds
    Personal Author:
    Cashdollar, Kenneth L.; Zlochower, Isaac A.;
    Corporate Author:
    Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
    Conference Author:
    International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention, and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions (6th : 2006 : Halifax, NS, Canada)
    Published:
    Aug 2006
    Description:
    Publishehed in: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention, and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions, Halifax, NS, Canada, August 27 - September 1, 2006. Halifax, Canada: Dalhousie University, 2006 Aug; 1:98-113. : The Pit...
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.44 MB]
  • Rock Mass Classification In German Hard-Coal Mining: Standards And Application; Proceedings Of The International Workshop On Rock Mass Classification In Underground Mining
    Personal Author:
    Witthaus, Holger; Polysos, Nikolaos;
    Published:
    5/1/2007
    Description:
    INTRODUCTION The classification system for German coal mining is the result of approximately 100 years of experience in roadway development and longwall mining. It is also based on different research projects covered by national and European research...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.28 MB]
  • Disease And Illness In U. S. Mining, 1983-2001
    Personal Author:
    Scott, Douglas F., MPH; Grayson, R. Larry, PH.D; Metz, Edward A., MD;
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    We describe inconsistencies in disease and illness reporting in U.S. mining, identify under-reporting of disease and illness in U.S. mining, and summarize selected disease and illness in U.S. mining from 1983 through 2001. Methods: We summarized info...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 573.29 KB]
  • Dust Collector Discharge Shroud Reduces Dust Exposure to Drill Operators at Surface Coal Mines - Objective
    Published:
    1/1/1995
    Description:
    To reduce air be respirable dust generated from emptying dry dust collectors on small truck-mounted drills used at surface coal mines.
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 114.73 KB]
  • Metal/Nonmetal Mill Fires; Analysis of Mine Fires for All US Metal/Nonmetal Mining Categories 1990-2001
    Personal Author:
    De Rosa, Maria I.
    Published:
    1/1/2004
    Description:
    Table 46 and figure 16 show the number of fires and fire injuries for metal/nonmetal mills by state during 1990-2001. Table 46 also shows the injury risk rates, employees' working hours, and lost workdays. In all, 77 fires occurred in 26 states. Thir...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 321.91 KB]
  • Limestone Mining: Is It Noisy Or Not?
    Personal Author:
    Bauer, E. R.; Babich, D. R.;
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    US. National Institute for Occupational .Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers are conducting a Cross-sectional survey of equipment noise and worker noise exposures in the mining industry. Surface and underground limestone is one commodity recently s...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.86 MB]
  • A Missing Component In Your Emergency Management Plans: The Critical Incident Stress Factor
    Personal Author:
    Kowalski, Kathleen M., PH.D.
    Published:
    0/1/1900
    Description:
    In emergency management, the effects of stress on the performance of emergency personnel, typically have been ignored or regarded as too enigmatic to quantify. This paper discusses the concept of Critical Incident Stress in responders to emergencies....
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.53 MB]
  • Flammability Of Noise Abatement Materials Used In Cabs Of Mobile Mining Equipment
    Personal Author:
    Litton, Charles D.; Mura, Kenneth E.; Thomas, Richard