Mine Shaft Conveyance Monitoring

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• Personal Author:
  Beus, M. J. ; Ruff, T. M. ; Iverson, S. ; Hasz, W. ; McCoy, W. G.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Technology to enhance safety during mine hoisting has been developed by researchers at the Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Assessment of current hoisting technology suggests that monitoring conveyance position and load directly from the skip or cage top offers several significant safety advantages. Wireless data transmission schemes and a package consisting of sensors, batteries, and a charger mounted on the wire rope and skip have been developed. A state-of-the-art automated hoisting test facility was constructed to test the concept in a controlled laboratory setting. Field tests in a fill-size shaft are underway.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  1999 SME Annual Meeting, March 1-3, 1999, Denver, Colorado, preprint 99-83. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 1999 Mar; :1-4
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027689
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9104/cdc_9104_DS1.pdf
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