A Noise Control for a Roof Bolting Machine: Collapsible Drill Steel Enclosure [manuscript]

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• Personal Author:
  Matetic, Rudy J. ; Kovalchik, Peter G. ; Peterson, J. Shawn ; Alcorn, Lynn A
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL) is conducting research to reduce the noise exposures of roof bolting machine operators and to prevent additional cases of Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) thru the development of engineering noise controls. This paper describes and evaluates an engineering noise control for the roof bolting machine, namely the collapsible drill steel enclosure. The results of the evaluation demonstrated that using the collapsible drill steel enclosure provided a 7 dB(A) reduction in sound pressure level at the operator’s position of a roof bolting machine.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  NOISE-CON 2008: Proceedings of the 2008 National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, July 28-31, 2008. Burroughs C, Lim T, Kim J, Maling G, eds. Indianapolis, IN: Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA, 2008 Jul; :545-551
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:082e17bf2be662f67a401c9075aa51a0a73cbe0231f3a6a1c4eff45608200ed92c630a693184a1cedb3800a68f1043ade4faa73ca5d5febda5c751a767594b88
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9734/cdc_9734_DS1.pdf
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