Assessing and Monitoring Open Pit Mine Highwalls

Details

• Journal Article:
  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Institute on Mining Health, Safety and Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 5-7, 2001
• Personal Author:
  Girard, Jami M.
• Description:
  Slope stability accidents are one of the leading causes of fatalities at U.S. surface mining operations. The Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is currently conducting research to reduce the fatalities associated with slope failures and other unexpected failures of ground. The purpose of this paper is to introduce various warning signs of slope instability so operators are better able to recognize hazards. The most common slope monitoring equipment and practical methods of installation are discussed as well as the limitations of these systems. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Mining Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention; Accident-analysis; Accident-rates; Surface-mining; Mine-workers; Miners; Mining-industry; Ground-stability; Stone-mines; Monitoring-systems; Injury-prevention; Safety-equipment; Safety-measures; Safety-monitoring; Safety-programs; Safety-practices; Highwall-mining
• Source:
  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Institute on Mining Health, Safety and Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 5-7, 2001. Jenkins FM, Langton J, McCarter MK, Rowe B, eds. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah, 2001 Aug; :159-171
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  University of Utah
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  13 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030390
• Contact Point Address:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Spokane Research Laboratory, 315 E. Montgomery Ave., Spokane, WA 99207
• Editor(s):
  Jenkins FM; Langton J; McCarter MK; Rowe B
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bb1b62851d9030e1ea3c7590420505ca44ae6b13ba6309147903e2de56cdfaf9d18afc60a608d3b396821ccfb0d6589689dba99c2be6d55551eeaeb6aa1889e1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/8509/cdc_8509_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 403.00 KB ]