Report of Investigations 9471: Transverse-Mounted End-Cab Design for Low-Coal Shuttle Cars

Details

• Journal Article:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9471
• Personal Author:
  Mayton, Alan G.
• Description:
  A prototype end-cab shuttle car (SC) design has been developed to improve protection and address ergonomic concerns of the SC operator in low coal mines. The new design features an end cab transversely mounted to the SC and equipped with a closed-circuit video system. The end cab was retrofitted to a low-coal SC and evaluated in surface trials at the U.S. Bureau of Mines. During surface trials, test operators evaluated the end-cab SC relative to visibility; cab features - space, seating, controls, and operator position; tramming - inby, outby, and turning corners; and dumping. Trials were conducted using 12 test subjects; 6 were experienced SC operators. Results of the trials were promising. Of the experienced operators, the only operator with low-coal experience gave the new design the highest rating. Four experienced operators rated the end-cab design "better" to "much better" than a standard center-driven, side-cab SC for visibility when tramming, protection from roof and rib hazards and no change in seat position with direction of travel. This report discusses research to modify a used 21SC JOY SC, retrofit the SC with the Bureau-developed end-cab, and evaluate the retrofitted end-cab SC in surface trials. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Mining-equipment; Ergonomics; Machine-operators; Equipment-operators; Equipment-design
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9471, 1993 Jan; :1-19
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  25 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10012130
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-232866
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e68a7e7ac2ca10cc2d568687a434c67af86614801dd96324e4da28d7fe5217b3165374442dccf4f3936643783bfc5fcdf143bc457555861170e73fd5a97fd750
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10269/cdc_10269_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.59 MB ]