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• ObsPlus: A Pandas-centric ObsPy Expansion Pack
  4/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A description of ObsPlus and how it can improve seismological data processing and management.
• Health Risk Factors Among Miners, Oil and Gas Extraction Workers, Other Manual Labor Workers, and Non-manual Labor Workers, BRFSS 2013-2017, 32 States
  8/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This study compares the prevalence of health risk factors of miners, oil and gas extraction workers, other manual labor, and non-manual labor workers.
• Clinical and Field Data Analysis of Miner Health
  4/13/2020 - Research projects
  A project to compile, manage, and analyze available secondary data sources related to miner health and exposure across mining, but with an initial emphasis on metal and industrial mineral sectors.
• 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.
• Applying Robust Design to Study the Effects of Stratigraphic Characteristics on Brittle Failure and Bump Potential in a Coal Mine
  1/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing the results of a robust design to consider the impact of different lithologic risk factors impacting dynamic failure risk.
• Surveillance & Statistics
  10/25/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop and strengthen the use of surveillance data to identify priorities, trends, and emerging issues within the mining industry.
• Development of Guidelines for the Design of Support Systems to Manage Coal Mine Rib Hazards
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop guidelines for determining the appropriate level of support and design methods for support systems to minimize the risk and severity of injuries to miners from rib falls in underground coal mines.
• Calibration and Verification of Longwall Stress Models
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to address the paucity of guidance in available literature for assessing the design an underground longwall coal mine for safe ground response to mining with numerical stress analysis tools.
• Statistical Methodology
  8/23/2016 - Unpublished documents and reports
  A summary of the methodology that NIOSH Mining uses to analyze the MSHA Accident/Injury/Illness database.
• 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.