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Information Circular 9151: Roof and Rib Fall Accident and Cost Statistics: An In-Depth Study

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  • Personal Author:
    Pappas, Deno M.
  • Description:
    The purpose of this Bureau of Mines study of U.S. roof and rib (roof- rib) accident statistics and related accident costs is to define current accident trends (1980-84) associated with fatal and nonfatal roof-rib fall accidents. Data were retrieved from a data base containing all recorded U.S. mining accidents, then sorted and normalized utilizing a computer software program. The statistics indicate that roof-rib accients have significantly declined in the 5- yr study period. Moreover, they indicate that there have been increases and/or patterns of roof-rib accidents associated with specific mine characteristics such as seam height, mine size, geographic location, and seasonal variation. Also, roof-rib injury characteristics produced pattern changes involving worker activity, lost workdays, types of injury, and severity of injury. A conservative estimate indicates that there has been a 30% adjusted increase in the cost of a roof-rib accident over the 5-yr study period. [Description provided by NIOSH]
  • Subjects:
  • Series:
    Mining Publications
  • Subseries:
    Information Circular
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Genre:
    Report
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Division:
    PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    26 pdf pages
  • Contributor:
    Hamilton, Betty J.
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:10005811
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    1987
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:9d1ebf72daae4ca38c2c3f20bb18d218f69a2afa6809bcc5a4966b2506bb3ac31c4de7f0e97b4476c5a23527609a908926aafb434fe87523bc513b19e5d43dab
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  • File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.28 MB ]
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