Information Circular 9093: Development of Protective Operator Compartment for Thin-Seam Mobile Bridge Carrier

Details

• Personal Author:
  Gunderman, Robert J. ; Kwitowski, August J.
• Description:
  This Bureau of Mines report summarizes the development of a protective operator compartment for a new generation thin-seam mobile bridge carrier. The developed compartment is commercially available and is currently employed on approximately 15 bridge carriers used in the mining industry. The design of the compartment, which employed human factors engineering and small- and full-scale mockup models, is fully described. Details of the compartment's fabrication, evaluation, and demonstration in a commercial low-seam coal mine are also provided. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Mine-haulage Mineral-industries Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  36 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10005318
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-167631
• Citation:
  BoM, 1986 :27 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Research Center
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:33def7747928a29f2292c1852d2766ff2248248d9549d636f8515b727d7d7e18a437f400f93ce3312c8fdb668cbe92f376f7f39fa6d15173b30c17fff3adfcf4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206088/cdc_206088_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.03 MB ]