Escape from a mine fire.

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This videotape deals with the experiences of two miners in escaping an underground coal mine fire in 1988. It illustrates the importance of knowing effective self-rescue and escape procedures. During their interviews the miners describe: How they received and interpreted the initial warning to evacuate the working section. Problems with self-contained self-rescuers. Leadership roles and how leadership emerged during the escape. Types of behavior exhibited by various crew members. Decisions that were made and who made them. The importance of knowing the escapeways in the working section. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Fires Mining Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Fire-hazards Mine-disasters Mine-escapes Mine-rescue Mine-shafts Mining-industry Occupational-hazards Rescue-measures Underground-miners Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Moving Image
• Genre:
  Videorecording
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Washington ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory ; PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024246
• Citation:
  NIOSH 2002 Jan; :49 minutes
• Contact Point Address:
  National Mine Health and Safety Academy, Department of Instructional Materials, 1301 Airport Road, Beaver, WV 25813-9426
• Email:
  lord-mary@msha.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f5d32ae64babc72c0de7dfcdf3810b400e6355cc075b127fe92cf62fb10fa57f794adeea9f317d4f16af66c498ac2103e949bb94d6c2b37f836a4bc7d7216f71
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248384/cdc_248384_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 125.47 KB ]