Information Circular 9009: Rollover Protective Structures (ROPS) Inspection and Maintenance Guide

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• Personal Author:
  Jones, Dennis C. ; Niziol, Kazimir ; Swan, Stephen A.
• Description:
  Bureau of Mines researchers have collected and evaluated rollover protective structures (ROPS) for more than 10 yr. ROPS and falling object protective structures (FOPS) are required on specified mining machines under regulations of the Mine Health and Safety Administration (MSHA). Both ROPS and FOPS are required on mining machines used in surface coal mines and surface areas of underground coal mines (30 CFR 77.403 and 77413a), and ROPS are required on mining machines used in metal and nonmetal mining operations (30 CFR 55,56 and 57.9-88). This illustrated manual provides mine safety personnel, MSHA inspectors, and original-equipment manufacturers with guidelines and a checklist for inspecting ROPS being used in the field. The manual discusses specific requirements of the MSHA regulations and minimum inspection and maintenance checks for ensuring compliance with those regulations. An easily reproducible checklist is provided as an aid to the inspection of ROPS. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Maintenance Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Coal-mines Falling-object-protective-structures Inspection Manuals Mining-equipment Protectors Regulations Requirements Restraint-systems Rollover-protective-structures Safety-devices Seat-belts Surface-mining Underground-mining

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  TCRC - Twin Cities Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  32 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10004449
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB85-235786
• Citation:
  Minneapolis, MN: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 9009, 1985 Jan; :1-15
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1985
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Minneapolis, MN: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 9009
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:85016050275fe94a22d97cc36d3ab8e8ee95fa1902d5cf5d4c996d21f93338ffda9aea2200e22ad5fb2a23f7e12453f8013a599e9895d087b8d7a232e35ba07c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206052/cdc_206052_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.56 MB ]