Workplace Solutions: Ground Fall Injuries in Underground Stone Mines

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Pappas, Deno M. ; Prosser, Leonard J. Jr.
• Description:
  Workers in underground stone mines have a high fatality rate caused by falls of ground from the mine roof or rib. NIOSH recommendations to reduce ground fall injuries and deaths address baskets, mechanical scalers, mechanical bolters, drill steel changing, personal protective equipment, and training. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  [principal contributors ... Deno Pappas and Leonard Prosser].
  
  Format not distributed to depository libraries.
  
  "CDC workplace safety and health."
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. [3]).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Staff Development Wounds And Injuries
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention; Injury-prevention; Traumatic-injuries; Injuries; Training; Safety-practices; Mining-industry; Underground-mining; Underground-miners; Mine-workers; Ground-control; Ground-stability; Mining-equipment; Protective-equipment; Personal-protective-equipment; Control-technology; Stone-mines; Nonmetal-mining
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2004-106, 2003 Nov; :1-4
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Workplace Solutions
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023886
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2004-101430
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:96efb88ddc56cf5ac2ce61e49d412b4331352fd8b9a55be171c0c8c09f7333c3ad7e70f7aad3de1c4cad09d422e24d966e306adfbc5c933a2d060471caca4053
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11623/cdc_11623_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.71 MB ]