Plugging Techniques That Should Allow Mining Through Wells

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• Personal Author:
  Evans DM ; Pasini J III ; Rennick, Gerald E. ; Whieldon CE Jr.
• Description:
  Research carried out since 1971 on plugging oil wells penetrating minable coal seams has allowed for safe underground mining through wells and recovering heretofore unrecoverable coal reserves. Work conducted under this research has consisted of plugging 27 wells and mining through 7 of them. This report covers the day-to-day record of plugging 23 of these wells and mining through 6 of them. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Coal Coal Mining Engineering Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Coal-mining Control-technology Engineering-controls Mining-industry Safety-research Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-106
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10008328
• NTIS Accession Number:
  MERC/RI-77/1
• Citation:
  USBM 1977 Jun; :1-106
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Performing Organization:
  Energy Research & Dev. Admin.
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  U.S. Bureau of Mines
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:de34c1cf3e2e02ba3d64c587963bd0572131c48a519a0aa731a7403a2aa709ff9c3a86d02d08cffae5eccc096b74441ba627a5d47f0d30d56b99097de13e37cc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206980/cdc_206980_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.54 MB ]