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• Guidelines for Instructional Materials on Refuge Chamber Setup, Use, and Maintenance
  7/1/2009 - Information Circulars, Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists
  NIOSH has created this document with suggestions for developing manuals and educational materials concerning refuge chambers for miners.
• CFD Modeling of Spontaneous Heating in a Large-Scale Coal Chamber
  7/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses a study in which a three-dimensional CFD modeling of spontaneous heating of coal, based on the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) large-scale coal chamber tests, was conducted.
• Stability Mapping to Examine Ground Failure Risk: A Field Study at a Limestone Mine
  7/1/2009 - Conference papers
  This paper presents a description of geologic settings, mining conditions, rockmass characterization with geotechnical risk assessment, analysis, mapping, and control techniques used at an underground stone mine in Central Pennsylvania.
• Technology News 535 - NIOSH Releases New Educational Video: Escape from Farmington No. 9: An Oral History
  5/1/2009 - Technology News
  Researchers with NIOSH have developed a training module to educate both new, inexperienced miners as well as veterans on important issues related to self-rescue and escape procedures.
• Escape From Farmington No. 9: An Oral History
  5/1/2009 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials, Videos and multimedia
  This video-based training module can be used to educate both inexperienced and veteran miners on important issues related to self-rescue and escape procedures.
• A Review of Recent Accidents Involving Explosives Transport
  3/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article is a review of recent accidents involving explosives transport both in the United States and outside of the United States.
• Performance Characteristics for Welded Wire Screen Used for Surface Control in Underground Coal Mines
  2/1/2009 - Conference papers
  The load-deformation characteristics and the load capacity of welded wire screen (roof screen) used to control ground fall were evaluated in the laboratory in a specially built test frame.
• Do Light-Emitting Diode Cap Lamps Enable Improvements in Miner Safety?
  2/1/2009 - Conference papers
  The objective of the research described in this paper was to determine if light-emitting diodes (LEDs) improve visual performance as compared to traditional incandescent (INC) cap lamps.
• A Performance Evaluation of Two Overhead Power Line Proximity Warning Devices
  11/1/2008 - Information Circulars
  The results of NIOSH's test of two commercially available proximity warning devices (PWDs) are presented. PWDs warn personnel if mobile equipment moves within some preselected minimum distance of an energized overhead electrical power line.
• Numerical Study on Effects of Coal Properties on Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Areas
  11/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study was conducted to model effects of coal properties on the potential for spontaneous heating in longwall gob (mined-out) areas.