Underground mine fire preparedness - Part 2 - Part 2 of 4 - Preparedness to evacuate and miners experiences with incipient fires; Holmes Safety Association Bulletin July 1997

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• Personal Author:
  Vaught, Charles ; Mallett, Launa G. ; Fowkes, Richard S. ; Conti, Ronald S. ; Wiehagen, William J.
• Description:
  This is the second in a series of four articles that discuss underground firefighting preparedness. As with the first article in the May-June issue, it is based on interviews with 214 miners conducted at 7 underground mines ( A through G ) by researchers of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health s (NIOSH) Pittsburgh Research Center [Vaught et al. 1996].In the first article, the authors presented an overview of the study conducted by NIOSH on mine fire response preparedness and provided a general perspective on underground mine fires. In this article, we will describe miners preparedness to evacuate a fire and their experience with incipient fires.
• Subjects:
  NIOSH
• Document Type:
  Text
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025417
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  urn:sha-512:5b28d63f5e49cce32a061b09e68a896d6c47a73d32500ce85d8ab766a941948747bbcc5039e37d9ee21a1c3406777b3942c584834cf75d45989764d4f052a5c3
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9760/cdc_9760_DS1.pdf
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