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• Reducing Dust Exposure from Contaminated Work Clothing with a Stand-Alone Cleaning System
  6/1/2008 - Conference papers
  An alternative method to the original system developed by NIOSH and Unimin Corp to provide for a stand-alone clothes cleaning system.
• Keeping Knees Healthy in Restricted Work Spaces: Applications in Low-Seam Mining
  5/1/2008 - Information Circulars, Training materials
  This training package educates the mining community about possible interventions beyond kneepads that may be used to help decrease knee injury rates.
• Equivalency of a Personal Dust Monitor to the Current United States Coal Mine Respirable Dust Sampler
  1/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The work presented in this paper focuses on the relationship between the PDM and respirable dust concentrations currently measured by a coal mine dust personal sampler unit utilizing a 10 mm Dorr Oliver nylon cyclone.
• Final Report of the Technical Study Panel on the Utilization of Belt Air and the Composition and Fire Retardant Properties of Belt Materials in Underground Coal Mining
  12/1/2007 - Unpublished documents and reports
  This final report was prepared by the Technical Study Panel on the Utilization of Belt Air and the Composition and Fire Retardant Properties of Belt Materials in Underground Coal Mining. It provides a review and recommendations concerning the utilizatio...
• Methods for Controlling Explosion Risk at Coal Mine Working Faces
  9/1/2007 - Conference papers
  This paper reviews how simultaneous application of three basic elements reduces the methane explosion hazard at coal mine working faces: (1) adequate ventilation, (2) regular monitoring of gas concentrations, and (3) elimination of ignition sources.
• Explosion Pressure Design Criteria for New Seals in U.S. Coal Mines
  7/1/2007 - Guides and manuals, Information Circulars
  This report provides a sound scientific and engineering justification to recommend a three-tiered explosion pressure design criterion for new seals. The recommendations contained herein apply to new seal design and construction in U.S. coal mines.
• Programmable Electronic and Hardwired Emergency Shutdown Systems: A Quantified Safety Analysis
  7/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes an analytical study to quantify the safety integrity of a Programmable Logic Controller based Emergency Shutdown System and a hardwired Emergency Shutdown System.
• Recommendations for Evaluating & Implementing Proximity Warning Systems on Surface Mining Equipment
  6/1/2007 - Reports of Investigations
  NIOSH studied technology and methods that could reduce accidents involving surface mining equipment. These proximity warning systems included radar, sonar, GPS, radio transceiver tags, and combinations of radar and cameras.
• Solutions to Prevent Materials-Handling Injuries in Underground Coal Mines
  2/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes three mechanical methods - the mobile manipulator, the in-mine hoist, and a cable-handling system - developed by NIOSH to reduce injuries related to handling supplies or material, loading and unloading, and moving power cables.
• A Measurement Method for Determining Absorption Coefficients for Underground Mines
  12/1/2006 - Conference papers
  This paper presents a method using a ray-tracing technique to determine absorption coefficients for underground mines. Absorption coefficients are determined and presented for octave bands from 63 Hz to 8 kHz.