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Transverse-mounted end-cab design for low-coal shuttle cars

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  • Personal Author:
    Mayton, Alan G.
  • Corporate Authors:
    United States. Bureau of Mines
  • 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." - NIOSHTIC-2

    NIOSH no. 10012130

  • Subjects:
  • Series:
    Mining Publications
  • Subseries:
    Report of Investigations
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Genre:
    Report
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    ii, 19 numbered pages
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:10012130
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    urn:sha-512:e68a7e7ac2ca10cc2d568687a434c67af86614801dd96324e4da28d7fe5217b3165374442dccf4f3936643783bfc5fcdf143bc457555861170e73fd5a97fd750
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