Recommended Guidelines for Oxygen Self-Rescuers–Volume III – Escapetime Studies in Underground Coal Mines

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• Personal Author:
  Berry DR ; Doyle DM ; Kamon E ; Mitchell, Donald W.
• Description:
  The objectives of this project were to (1) determine escape speed in different mine conditions, (2) evaluate the performance of chemical oxygen self-contained self-rescuers (scsr) under actual escape conditions, and (3) measure the physiological cost of mine escape. A special escapeway was established so that escape speeds and the use of scsr's could be analyzed over a wide range of conditions, including travelway heights of 30 in to 7 ft. The average escape speeds ranged from 96 ft/min crawling to 264 ft/min for head-bent walking. The average life of six scsr's was 60.8 Min; those traveling faster consumed their scsr's faster, although the total distance traveled before exhaustion of the scsr was independent of speed and travel. Physiological data were also recorded. The average respiration rate was 41 l/min and the average oxygen consumption was 1.38 L/min. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract 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:
  1-49
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10003505
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB84-179506
• Citation:
  Available for Reference At Bureau of Mines Libraries :49 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Performing Organization:
  Foster-Miller, Inc.
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:580793052fa53a3a993cd9d36cb7410bc6032711c7a3a45605395f79307114ed497f1d5a7bdaefdc87017294a9725aaa7194273feadc3616911902b287dd3fe7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206706/cdc_206706_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.78 MB ]