Patterns in Mining Haul Truck Accidents

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• Personal Author:
  Dempsey, Patrick G. ; Drury CG ; Porter, William L.
• Description:
  To help develop ergonomics audit programs for mining, one source of data on both work tasks and their failures is accident reports. These are available in most industries and are often used in human factors engineering, but typically to justify and evaluate interventions rather than to provide task details and failure mechanisms. Because fatal accidents in particular contain considerable detail resulting from thorough follow-up investigations, they are thus a useful starting point for analysis. A set of 40 detailed fatal accident reports for mining haul truck accidents were analyzed to develop repeating patterns of accidents. This paper examines the accident patterns found from the initial sample, the refined pattern analysis developed from a subsequent larger sample, and the task analyses used later to help develop valid audit programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Ergonomics Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-rates Accident-statistics Human-factors-engineering Mining-industry Traumatic-injuries
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  9780945289418
• ISSN:
  1071-1813
• Publisher:
  Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OMSHR - Office of Mine Safety and Health Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  56
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041927
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting, October 22-26, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2012 Sep; 56:2011-2015
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting, October 22-26, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:85ccb4306910c301143f0dcf1cb7a19b82c9101b42497d0337cb253397445f5bae6c10f93419746e62c50e514c312e7ced2fea779e79792746271410cfc37c46
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227500/cdc_227500_DS1.pdf
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