NIOSH Mine Fire Research in the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Smith, Alex C. ; Thimons, Edward D. ; Trevits, Michael A. ; Yuan L
• Description:
  During the time period from 1990-2007, there were 1601 reportable fires that occurred in the U.S. mining industry (an average of 89 fires per year). The leading causes of U.S. mine fires include flame cutting and welding operations, frictional heating and ignitions, electrical shorts, mobile equipment malfunctions, and spontaneous combustion. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is conducting a program of research addressing metal/nonmetal and coal mine fire prevention, detection, management and suppression. In the metal/nonmetal area, work was focused on technology transfer and training, and research to reduce the number of mobile equipment fires and their hazards. In the coal arena, research is underway to determine the root cause of cutting and welding-related fires and to evaluate the effects of ventilation schemes relative to the spontaneous combustion risk in longwall mines. Relative to fire management, research is ongoing on remote mine seal installation and remote mine fire suppression technologies. Finally, research is continuing to develop comprehensive and usable smoke management techniques and to develop mine fire growth models, propagation, and suppression. This paper presents a summary of some of the mine fire research and provides an overview of the next phase of the NIOSH mine fire research program. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Engineering Fires Mining Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Welding
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Remote Mine Sealing Coal-dust Coal-miners Coal-mining Coal-workers Control-technology Engineering-controls Equipment-reliability Fire-hazards Fire-safety Fires Fire Suppression Systems Longwall-mining Mine-seals Mining-industry Modeling Safety-measures Safety-practices Spontaneous Combustion Underground-mining

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  9788120417496
• Publisher:
  Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  357-366
• Volume:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036215
• Citation:
  Mine Ventilation: Proceedings of the Ninth International Mine Ventilation Congress, November 10-13, 2009, New Delhi, India. Panigrahi DC ed. New Delhi, India: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., 2009 Nov; 1:357-366
• Email:
  mft7@cdc.gov
• Editor(s):
  Panigrahi DC
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:912a28ca8999364b8d4dae0fe0374aabe5a00ed4b1d46f1cb7a449da6c95c917d1861cde652a660bf1ffd116ea8d78ff93e079d672039cbe5722844933dff9a3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227150/cdc_227150_DS1.pdf
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