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• Effectiveness of Various Concentrations of an Inert Gas Mixture for Preventing and Suppressing Mining Equipment Cab Fires: Development of a Dual-Cab Fire Inerting System
  3/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  NIOSH conducted large-scale experiments to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of various concentrations of an inert gas mixture for preventing and suppressing cab fires. This has led to the choice of an optimum gas mixture concentration.
• A New Concept for Leak Testing Environmental Enclosure Filtration Systems
  11/1/2006 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A method (patent pending) has been developed to determine the quality of environmental cab filtration systems. It utilizes specially configured filter cartridges to remove carbon dioxide from the ambient air with the environmental cab's air filtration s...
• A Checklist for Evaluating Cab Design of Construction Equipment
  10/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article introduces a one-page checklist for evaluating cab design of construction equipment.
• Dust Underfoot: Enclosed Cab Floor Heaters Can Significantly Increase Operator's Respirable Dust Exposure
  4/1/2001 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Many types of heavy equipment used in the mining and construction industries use enclosed cabs to protect equipment operators from dust and noise exposure. A cooperative research study with a mining company and a cab filtration company was conducted to...