Proximity Detection with Selective Machine Shutdown

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• Personal Author:
  Carr, Jacob L. ; DuCarme, Joseph P. ; Jobes, Christopher C.
• Description:
  An average of 1.2 fatalities occur per year in underground coal mines in the United States when a miner is struck or pinned by a remote-controlled continuous mining machine. Proximity detection technology provides a means to prevent these types of accidents by disabling all machine motion when a miner is in close proximity. Researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have developed the intelligent Proximity Detection (iPD) system, which continuously tracks the position of miners near the machine and disables only those machine motions that could cause a pinning accident. This system, previously demonstrated using nonpermissible proximity detection hardware, has now been shown to be effective when implemented using an MSHA-approved system as a platform. Performance tests have shown accuracy, repeatability, and stop zone identification to be comparable to or better than the system demonstrated with non-permissible hardware. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Behavior Coal Coal Mining Economics Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accidents Coal-mining Health-hazards Health-protection Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operation Mine-workers Miners Mining-industry Morbidity-rates Mortality-data Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Underground-mining

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  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
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047053
• Citation:
  2015 SME Annual Meeting, February 15-18, 2015, Denver, Colorado, preprint 15-083. Englewood, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2015 Feb; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  2015 SME Annual Meeting, February 15-18, 2015, Denver, Colorado, preprint 15-083
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:52961ba4782287fc8c1108df47cc43956c1e89ca6f31441837fe679e094e4c5311109daa7e531d7131d9297e4591fabf728ac4355f45ce05b1ffb0869dc0956b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228192/cdc_228192_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.79 MB ]