Translucent face partition reduces longwall worker's dust exposure

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• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  "Previous U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) studies have shown that an extended face-conveyor spillplate barrier can create two air splits effectively, but it proved to be impractical because the workers could not see the face area and a reliable radio remote control was not yet available for the sharing machines. The USBM's current approach to air splitting consists of using a polyester mesh partition to overcome the visibility problems of a solid barrier. A permeable mesh partition is expected to provide adequate air-splitting capabilities as long as the pressure differential between the face and worker walkway is minimal. New, reliable, radio remote shearer-control technology supplemented the development of this air-splitting technology." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 20025401
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Technology News
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025401
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7f7c13b75d8420e499aba36a30bc3c44922884f6c7f0d42067d9fe2dceb0b20d95af7fa002fe0890ce99a2e66083520679b5b0d8f5dcd0b9071f843bbffff116
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9864/cdc_9864_DS1.pdf
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