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• Mining Fact Sheets
  4/1/2022 - Data and statistics
  Mining Fact Sheets covering a variety of topics of general interest relating to mining operations, employees, fatalities, and nonfatal lost-time injuries.
• If the Technology Fits: an Evaluation of Mobile Proximity Detection Systems in Underground Coal Mines
  8/1/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study applying the task-technology fit framework to investigate the fit between mobile proximity detection systems and mining relative to health and safety
• Demonstrating the Financial Impact of Mining Injuries with the Safety Pays in Mining Web Application
  2/19/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article discussing the development of the Safety Pays in Mining app, how the app is used to show the true costs of mining injuries, and how mines can benefit from using it.
• Prevention of Manual Materials Handling Injuries in Mining
  2/10/2019 - Research projects
  A project to reduce manual materials handling injuries in mining through increased usage of materials handling solutions and safe practices.
• What's the Cost of an Injury? A New App from NIOSH Estimates the Cost of Common Injuries
  10/1/2017 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing Safety Pays in Mining — a new, free web app from NIOSH.
• An Analysis of Roof Bolter Fatalities and Injuries in U.S. Mining
  8/1/2017 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper analyzes U.S. roof bolter fatal and nonfatal lost-time injury data at underground work locations for all commodities from 2004 through 2013 and determines risk indices for six roof bolting tasks.
• Technology News 558 - Safety Pays in Mining: a Web Application that Demonstrates the Financial Impact of Injuries
  7/10/2017 - Technology News
  This Technology News describes the Safety Pays in Mining web application, which brings awareness to companies about the unknown costs of injuries and the distribution of these costs. The web application is available for use on the NIOSH Mining website.
• New Web Application: Safety Pays in Mining
  2/17/2017 - News articles
  Use the Safety Pays in Mining web application from NIOSH to learn how worker injuries—medical bills plus other costs—affect mining companies' finances.
• Reducing Machine Guarding-Related Injuries in Mining
  11/16/2016 - Research projects
  A pilot project to assess the types of injuries mine workers sustain when handling machine covers and guards and to determine the focus of future machine cover and guard redesign efforts.
• Designing a Statistical Algorithm for Strategic Identification and Development of New Mine Safety Technologies and Technological Applications
  7/18/2016
  A contract to survey the landscape of mine hazards through a lens wide enough to capture all mine operations, fine-grained enough to pinpoint hazards for each specific type of operation, and responsive enough to detect new hazards as they emerge.