Visual Attention Locations for Operating Continuous Miners, Shuttle Cars, and Scoops. Volume 1

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• Personal Author:
  Kelley GR ; Sanders MS
• Description:
  The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the visibility requirements for shuttle car and continuous miner operators. Scoops were considered, insofar as they fulfill functions in the mine similar to those carried out by shuttle cars (that is, loading, transporting, and unloading of coal). A second objective was to evaluate the actual field of visibility for a sample machine to develop a simple procedure for visibility evaluation of mobile equipment. A procedure was developed for assessing whether operators in existing machines could be expected to see the visual attention locations. The procedure makes use of a human eye reference measurement instrument (hermi) designed for this project and an outside-in photographic procedure for documenting compliance with the recommendations. Samples of continuous miners, shuttle cars, and scoops were used to test the procedure and the results are presented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Ergonomics Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mining Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention; Equipment-operators; Equipment-reliability; Ergonomics; Injury-prevention; Machine-operation; Machine-operators; Miners; Mine-workers; Occupational-accidents; Occupational-hazards; Occupational-safety-programs; Questionnaires; Safety-education; Safety-equipment; Safety-measures; Safety-measures; Safety-practices; Underground-miners; Underground-mining; Work-areas; Work-environment; Worker-health; Worker-motivation; Work-operations; Work-performance; Workplace-studies; Work-practices
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-142
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10002339
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-187964
• Citation:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Contract J0387213, 1981 Jan; :1-142
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Performing Organization:
  Canyon Research Group, Inc., Westlake Village, CA
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Contract J0387213
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:91ce3d5c83fbba8ef508c029b9f705e69e05c67bbf67ae03e22b9ed4b3e0dfe1da822f80b17161dc7532bcdd2902168b2422b8f556fef9e38a518df6fcebaf68
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/235526/cdc_235526_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.67 MB ]