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• Overview of U.S. Research on Three Approaches to Ensuring That Coal Miners Work Safely: Management, Workplace Design and Training
  2/1/1997 - Conference papers
  This paper summarized the past 20 years of U.S. research to ensure that underground coal miners work safely.
• Continuous Respirable Mine Dust Monitor Development
  2/1/1997 - Conference papers
  NIOSH initiated the development of a fixed-site machine-mounted continuous respirable dust monitor. The technology chosen for monitor development is the Rupprecht and Patashnick Co., Inc. tapered element oscillating microbalance. Laboratory and in-mine ...
• Progress Toward a Reduced Exposure Mining System
  2/1/1997 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  In 1986 the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) embarked on a major research effort to develop technology that can substantially reduce worker exposure to face hazards simply by relocating the equipment operators to an area of relative safety. This paper repor...
• Continuous Respirable Mine Dust Monitor Development
  8/1/1996 - Conference papers
  In response to an MSHA task group recommendation, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pittsburgh Research Center, initiated the development of a fixed-site machine-mounted continuous respirable dust monitor.
• SPONCOM - A Computer Program for the Prediction of the Spontaneous Combustion Potential of an Underground Coal Mine
  1/1/1996 - Conference papers
  The United States Bureau of Mines (USBM) developed sponcom to aid in the assessment of the spontaneous combustion risk of an underground mining operation.
• Technology News 453 - Navigation and Control of Continuous Mining Systems for Coal Mining
  1/1/1996 - Technology News
  The USBM research program is developing technology that will allow computer-assisted operation of mechanized equipment normally used in underground room-and-pillar coal mining, while permitting workers to be located away from the hazardous coal extracti...
• Pillar Mechanics of Coal Mine Bursts: A Control Strategy
  9/1/1995 - Conference papers
  In this study, data available for a range of U.S. bursts were considered in an effort to evaluate both common and distinctive features of coal mine bursts.
• Proceedings: Mechanics and Mitigation of Violent Failure in Coal and Hard-Rock Mines
  5/1/1995 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  Papers presented at a USBM technology transfer seminar describe the causes of violent material failure in U.S. mines, measurement techniques for monitoring events that result in violent failure, and mitigation techniques for controlling failure.
• Technology News 447 - Dust Collector Discharge Shroud Reduces Dust Exposure to Drill Operators at Surface Coal Mines
  3/1/1995 - Technology News
  Dust collector discharge shrouds were used to reduce airborne respirable dust generated from emptying dry dust collectors on small truck-mounted drills at surface coal mines.
• Analysis of Underground Coal Mine Fire Incidents in the United States from 1978 through 1992
  1/1/1995 - Information Circulars
  An analysis of 164 underground coal mine fire incidents occurring in the United States during the 15 years from 1978 through 1992.