Musculoskeletal Stress on Miners Performing Roof Screening Operations

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• Personal Author:
  Baron K ; Compton, Craig S. ; Davis K ; Gallagher S ; Kotowski, Susan
• Description:
  Roof screen is often bolted to the mine ceiling to help control hazardous rock falls in coal mines. While the screen prevents rock fall injuries, its installation may expose the miner to musculoskeletal stress. The purpose of this study was to evaluate methods of handling roof screen. Subjects performed installation tasks under a normal and intervention condition while trunk kinematics and muscle activity data were collected. Trunk kinematics were not affected by the intervention but were significantly higher in the morning than in the afternoon. Muscle activity did not differ significantly with seam height but was significantly reduced by the intervention. Overall, this study showed that musculoskeletal stressors during screen installation were reduced by the proposed intervention. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Movements Mining Occupational Health Safety Software Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Back-injuries Biomechanics Coal-mining Injury-prevention Mining-industry Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1071-1813
• Publisher:
  Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  13
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031496
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting, October 16-20, 2006, San Francisco, California. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2006 Oct; 50(13):1370-1374
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Traumatic Injuries
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting, October 16-20, 2006, San Francisco, California
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226707/cdc_226707_DS1.pdf
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