Recovery of Farmington #9: an interview with Danny Kuhn.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; Mine Safety and Health Administration (U.S.)
• Description:
  On November 20, 1968, an explosion rocked the Farmington Number 9 facility in West Virginia, killing 78 of 99 miners who were working in the mine. All but one member of the mine's rescue team were working underground at the time of the explosion. None survived. Some 30 years after the event, researchers from the NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory conducted a video interview with Danny Kuhn, the Farmington Number 9 mine rescue team member who was not working that night. This video is designed to acquaint mine rescue personnel with certain aspects of rescue work that are not traditionally taught - the strain caused by continual work under adverse conditions; the problem of "survivor guilt" - being spared the fate of one's deceased buddies; and the possibility that post-traumatic stress can occur during the sometimes lengthy task of body recovery. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Mining Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Injuries Mine-disasters Mine-rescue Mine-workers Miners Mining-industry Occupational-hazards Rescue-workers Traumatic-injuries Underground-miners Underground-mining Work-environment Workers

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Moving Image
• Genre:
  Videorecording
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024250
• Citation:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2000 Jan; :60 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:
  2000
• 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/248428/cdc_248428_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 125.47 KB ]