Safety training tools for rock scaling personnel

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• Alternative Title:
  NIOSHTIC no. 20000981
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Scaling, the removal of loose rock from the roofs and walls of a mine by manual or mechanized means, may be necessary during any stage of mining. Manual scaling is very labor intensive, and mechanical methods can be too powerful and actually produce a less stable roof. A systematic review of recent MSHA accident and fatality reports for underground metal/nonmetal mines revealed that nearly a quarter of all fatalities were related to rock falls, approximately one-third of all accidents involved scaling, and about half of all scaling-related accidents involved miners with less than 3 years of mining experience. Thus, the process of scaling was identified as a major source of injuries to miners and targeted for investigation.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Technology News
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  2 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000981
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a25f7ab2ba1d60fc7d19263e9f3157650946111faeeada86951423155f38df46f71eec577b2ca8b9675fbb4f3b32b4e6aacce05cbe51dfac0029b92599e1cafa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9362/cdc_9362_DS1.pdf
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