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Personal Author:
Utt, Walter K. ; Miller, Gregory G. ; Howie, Wayne L. ; Woodward, Chelsea C.
Utt, Walter K. ; Miller, Gregory G. ; Howie, Wayne L. ; Woodward, Chelsea C. Less -
Corporate Authors:
Spokane Research Laboratory (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
Description:
"The process of drilling and bolting the roof is currently one of the most dangerous jobs in underground mining, resulting in about 1,000 accidents with injuries each year in the United States. Researchers from the Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are studying the use of a drill monitoring system to estimate the strength of successive layers of rock and assess the integrity of a mine roof so that roof drill operators can be warned when a weak layer is being drilled. Measurements taken during the drilling can be converted to suitably scaled features so that a neural network can classify mine roof strata in terms of relative strength. The feasibility of this concept has been demonstrated in the laboratory. The research project was undertaken in order to increase the safety of underground miners, especially those involved in roof bolting., The system should be applicable to the mobile drills used in underground mining and would likely find wider application as well." - NIOSHTIC-2

Includes bibliographical references (p. 14)


Subject:
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Drilling And Boring Machinery.
Mine Roof Bolting--Equipment And Supplies

Series:
Report of investigations (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) ; 9658 ; DHHS publication ; no. (NIOSH) 2002-141
Report of investigations (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) ; 9658 ; DHHS publication ; no. (NIOSH) 2002-141 Less -
Document Type:
Report
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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