Ergonomic Seat Reduces Shock for Low-Seam Shuttle Car Operators

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Description:
  "Operators of underground mobile equipment, particularly shuttle cars, are often exposed to significant levels of shock and whole-body vibration. Past studies have reported that as many as one-third of underground equipment operators could be exposed to adverse levels of shock and whole -body vibration. Moreover, seats on mining equipment, historically, are inadequate relative to the ergonomic needs of the equipment operator. In the extreme, a mine vehicle seat has sometimes consisted of blocks of wood or a bent steel place bolted to the machine frame. Also, the lack of sufficient vertical clearance in some underground mines is an impediment to providing adequate shock isolation systems on mine equipment seats." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 20000430
  
  
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Technology News
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB97136
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000430
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1f000eaaf630839ec1003108c2d25aa0823fc9a42edcb61e3a1ef8fc322a73c148ba3e67e13cad56bfb29f219c284c799599237b55a8a4b747bdbb0b295fa719
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/48950/cdc_48950_DS1.pdf
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