Methods for Determining Roof Fall Risk in Underground Mines

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• Personal Author:
  Iannacchione, A. ; Prosser, L. ; Esterhuizen, G. ; Bajpayee, T.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Description:
  Reducing the number of roof fall injuries is a goal of the NIOSH mine safety research program. Central to this effort is the development of assessment techniques to help identify the nature of the risks associated with working under potentially hazardous roof conditions. This paper discusses a method to determine the roof fall risk using a qualitative risk-analysis technique. The ability to determine roof fall risk has been a long-standing goal of safety professionals and could provide the kind of information needed by on-site personnel responsible for worker safety to mitigate roof fall injuries.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  2007 SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit, February 25-28, Denver Colorado, Preprint 07-090. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2007 Feb; :1-8
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032865
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7d53c30deaf594b57ab99075715980055070b80ff3dd39db369abed9911821fa73ca83cc2378356d37d28bda83983833b340443e97452f28e45c3874cecb3590
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9084/cdc_9084_DS1.pdf
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