Design Criteria and Guidelines for Falling Object Protective Structures (FOPS)

Details

• Journal Article:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Contract J0357110
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This study addresses several engineering and economic facets of possible roll-over protective structure (ROPS) and falling object protection structure (FOPS) requirements in the metal-nonmetal mining industry. The economic effects of proposed Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration regulations are analyzed in terms of machine population, ages of the equipment, cost of ROPS/FOPS retrofit, and operator protection available from the protective structure. The engineering portion of the study dealt with first classifying rock falls into potential energy ranges and then analyzing the machine from structure to determine the energy adsorption capability. The ROPS/FOPS performance criteria was then recommended as well as certification procedures that would verify the structural performance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Engineering Metals Mining Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Mining-equipment; Engineering-controls; Protective-equipment; Injury-prevention; Accident-prevention; Surface-mining; Quarries; Quarry-workers; Miners; Mine-workers; Metal-mining; Nonmetal-mining; Underground-mining; Rock-falls
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Contract J0357110, 1976 Feb; :1-284
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Bureau of Mines Contract J0357110
• Genre:
  Final Contract Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  290 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10001328
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-259254
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Performing Organization:
  Woodward Associates, Inc.
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:67c02e8e58f37f17cd6d4ccaa594ad330165ae25ecbaf0927a3dcaaa1ad3a156bcc8de1822a8f4f00a22ae727b952df05d2887931767b295da4dc43d517300e0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9143/cdc_9143_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.67 MB ]