Underground coal mine track inspection and cleaning vehicle

Details

• Personal Author:
  Unger, Richard L.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  The U.S. Bureau of Mines has designed, fabricated, and tested a prototype track maintenance vehicle for underground coal mines. The vehicle uses a stiff rotating brush to clean the track so that a visual inspection is possible. It is also equipped to measure track gauge and cross-level. The objective of this report was to describe the track maintenance vehicle and detail the results of investigations into present underground track inspection procedures and cleaning technologies, which led to the development of the prototype. Recommendations are made concerning the integration of components of this prototype vehicle into current track cleaning and inspection systems used in underground mines.
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• 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, 34 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10007054
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c19f0d8e69e7c974ab6f44d9d247bf5a9811b797be962112e029c83f5bc99c979156677bc46ba8967a6aabc66c2d2e976c15a7f2d1267be66e2e4889dc695f6a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10757/cdc_10757_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 19.35 MB ]