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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to design a pilot program for strategic mine safety and health improvements through the use of surveillance data to guide targeted inspection activities.
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Characteristics of the Top Five Most Frequent Injuries in United States Mining Operations, 2003-20071/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis report describes an alternative method of analyzing and presenting MSHA data for the purpose of identifying high-cost, high-severity injuries and illnesses.
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12/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA new approach was tested and it was demonstrated that it could be used for prediction of elastic and shear moduli of coal-measure rocks with reasonable accuracy.
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8/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesNIOSH conducted a statistical study of available data regarding frictional ignitions in the United States from 1983 to 2005 to determine and define conditions controlling their occurrence.
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12/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper describes an alternative measure of risk in mining using a beta distribution to model the losses and to compare underground coal mining to underground metal/nonmetal mining from 2000 to 2004.
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11/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper concludes a five-year program on research into the use of a portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer for analyzing lead in air sampling filters from different industrial environments, including mining, manufacturing and recycling.
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8/1/2005 - Conference papersThis paper summarises the results of a research project whose goal was to provide the Australian coal industry with a rib support design methodology and software tool that could be utilised by suitably qualified colliery staff.
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5/1/2005 - Information CircularsThis report examines the boom arm vertical speed for roof bolting machines to study a moving boom arm appendage at different speeds during different work scenarios. The goal of this study is to determine the impact of the appendage speed on the likeliho...
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8/1/2004 - Conference papersAverage UCS may differ between coreholes but not be statistically significant, and widely spaced coreholes may be able to identify valid spatial trends in rock strength. The paper describes NIOSH's extensive investigation into these issues.
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1/1/1999 - Information CircularsThis work identified the most important variables contributing to coal bumps. These are (1) mechanical properties of strata, including local yield characteristics of a mine roof and floor, (2) gate pillar factors of safety, (3) roof beam thickness, join...
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program