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6/1/2011 - Guides and manuals, Reports of InvestigationsRefuge alternatives are airtight, reinforced shelters that underground coal miners can enter during a mine emergency. This publication provides recommendations for training miners in how to operate a refuge chamber.
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This NIOSH publication demonstrates how existing and new engineering controls can be used to reduce face methane levels.
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9/1/2009 - Reports of InvestigationsThe information in this report was used by MSHA and WVOMHS&T as supporting data in their analyses and investigative reports of the Sago Mine explosion.
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6/1/2004 - Reports of InvestigationsA personal dust monitor (PDM) was developed to measure respirable coal mine dust mass to provide accurate exposure data at the end of a work shift.
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10/1/1999 - Reports of InvestigationsAn analysis of the consequences of increasing longwall panel dimensions, particularly face width, in gassy coalbeds. Continuous longwall face emission monitoring studies were conducted at two adjacent mines operating in the Pocahontas No. 3 Coalbed, whe...
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10/1/1998 - Reports of InvestigationsOne of the applications of enabling technology for remote-controlled mining to protect miners is the use of a guidance system on the continuous haulage equipment so that it follows the continuous mining machine that extracts the coal.
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1/1/1993 - Reports of InvestigationsA prototype end-cab shuttle car (SC) design has been developed to improve protection and address ergonomic concerns of the SC operator in low coal mines. This report discusses research to modify a used 21SC JOY SC, retrofit the SC with the Bureau-devel...
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1/1/1992 - Reports of InvestigationsThis report presents a Bureau of Mines study to identify the causes of self-heating events beneath the floor of a deep underground coal mine. The combined results led to the conclusion that pyrite oxidation was the prime cause of the heatings.
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1/1/1992 - Reports of InvestigationsThe U.S. Bureau of Mines applied its mine fire diagnostic method to an abandoned anthracite mine fire site in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, PA.
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1/1/1989 - Reports of InvestigationsThe U.S. Bureau of Mines used a contact drilling strategy with short-collared assemblies in order to rotary drill long horizontal methane drainage holes in the Beckley coalbed near Glen Daniel, West Virginia. By decreasing the thrust and increasing the ...
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program