Safer Mine Hoisting with Conveyance Position and Load Monitoring

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• Journal Article:
  Proceedings of the 7th Joint Science Symposium on Occupational Safety and Health, October 26-27 1998, Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania
• Personal Author:
  Beus, Michael J. ; Iverson, Stephen R.
• Description:
  "Traumatic injuries" and "engineering control technologies" have been identified as priority research areas in the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) guidelines. Mine shafts and hoisting are the most critical and potentially most dangerous operation in underground mining. Many hazards are related to falls of miners and materials, ground instability, and malfunction of safety devices. These problems all have the potential to cause a catastrophic accident. For example, a condition known as "slack rope," which is caused by the cage or skip becoming blocked, is particularly dangerous, especially if this condition occurs without the hoist operator's awareness. On July 30, 1973, an accident at the Markham Colliery in the United Kingdom killed 18 miners and seriously injured 11 others. Sensors for mine hoists have been developed to provide performance data to the hoist operator. Such data can warn of potentially dangerous situations during hoisting operations, as well as during inspections, maintenance operations, and lowering of large pieces of equipment. This sensor technology may also have applications to other industries such as the crane industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported (1993) an average fatality rate of 71 workers per year related to cranes, derricks, and hoists. Lack of information on crane loads was a major cause of injury. This paper describes how the sensors work, how data are collected and transmitted to a mine hoist operator, and how the device could be applied on cranes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Accidents, Occupational Engineering Environmental Exposure Mining Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Traumatic injuries; Injuries; Engineering controls; Engineering; Underground mining; Mine shafts; Hoisting; Hazards; Falls; Mine workers; Safety equipment; Accidents; Exposure levels; Risk factors; Sensors; Cranes
• Source:
  Proceedings of the 7th Joint Science Symposium on Occupational Safety and Health, October 26-27 1998, Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania. Cincinnati, OH: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,1998 Oct; :30
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047951
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5377b9c718f21b6a7d0ff5e3c349d25fb31822d451135019dd63fd264f9776a8917b905c3340fb8f293e1e90f832a6f7f7f0005461770a69e12647adac61660a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9433/cdc_9433_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 297.80 KB ]