Enhanced Surface Control For Roof And Rib Support

Details

• Journal Article:
  Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, August 7-9, 2001, Morgantown, West Virginia
• Personal Author:
  Tadolini, Stephen C. ; Dolinar, Dennis R.
• Description:
  The risk of injury caused by minor roof falls continues to increase in underground mining. Most ground control injuries result from small rock falls that occur in a supported area, but do not involve the failure of the support system. In the roof, these are the "skin failures" that occur between previously installed primary or secondary bolting systems. To minimize skin failures and the associated accidents, several devices were designed and tested in the laboratory to maximize stiffness, minimize material thickness and weight, and ease material storage and handling on roof bolting machines. The goal of this project was to design and evaluate devices that can be installed with traditional primary or secondary roof supports, and that are easy to handle/install under temporary or previously supported roof. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Electrical Equipment And Supplies Mining Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Underground-mining; Rock-falls; Rock-mechanics; Injury-prevention; Injuries; Accident-prevention; Accidents; Mine-disasters; Mine-workers
• Source:
  Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, August 7-9, 2001, Morgantown, West Virginia. Peng SS, Mark C, Khair AW, eds. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University, 2001 Aug; :173-179
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  0939084569
• Publisher:
  West Virginia University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Pennsylvania ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  7 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021464
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH, Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Editor(s):
  Peng SS; Mark C; Khair AW
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bd0c9689c430dd0343d251429b4b899a21630ddad6b76e1c979834dc8282070f9deed191a0225b9be6da5dafa0f846e6b377730a52e4f45ff896caddbb3d8afa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/8753/cdc_8753_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.29 MB ]