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• An Analysis of Serious Injuries to Dozer Operators in the U.S. Mining Industry
  4/1/2001 - Information Circulars
  This report describes serious injuries occurring to bulldozer operators working at U.S. coal, metal, and nonmetal mines. The period covered is 1988-97.
• An Underground Coal Mine Fire Preparedness and Response Checklist: The Instrument
  8/1/2000 - Information Circulars
  Provides a detailed description of a data collection instrument used to profile the fire prevention and response capabilities of a mine site.
• Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Field Evaluation: Sixth-Phase Results
  7/1/2000 - Information Circulars
  This report presents findings regarding laboratory-tested SCSRs in the sixth phase of testing from mid-1996 to early 1998. The SCSRs were tested on human subjects and on a breathing and metabolic simulator.
• Behavioral and Organizational Dimensions of Underground Mine Fires
  5/1/2000 - Information Circulars
  A scientific study of human behavior during an escape from a fire in an effort to understand and derive benefits for design, engineering and safety efforts.
• Review of Recent Research on Organizational and Behavioral Factors Associated With Mine Safety
  1/1/1989 - Information Circulars
  This report presents a literature review conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Mines summarizing what has been learned from recent empirical studies of the relationship between mine safety and the characteristics of miners, mine management, and mining companies.
• Mine Safety Education and Training Seminar: Proceedings: Bureau of Mines Technology Transfer Seminar
  1/1/1988 - Conference proceedings, Information Circulars
  This proceedings volume presents several new developments that are helping to improve the quality and efficiency of health, safety, and occupational skills training in the mining community. Several papers address the issue of how to teach and assess min...
• Human Factors in Mining
  1/1/1988 - Information Circulars
  Information Circular describing various human factors within mining, including system design, capabilities and limitations, errors and accidents, and environmental factors. Bureau of Mines publication.
• Underground Mine Communications, Control and Monitoring
  1/1/1984 - Information Circulars
  Since 1969, the Bureau of Mines has sponsored numerous programs aimed at improving methods of underground communication. This manual brings together relevant data from all previous reports, studies, and other sources, and presents these data in such a w...
• Underground Mine Communications (in Four Parts): 4. Section-to-Place Communications
  1/1/1977 - Information Circulars
  This Bureau of Mines report on underground mine communications addresses methods and equipment to meet the communication requirements of working sections and places of coal and metal-nonmetal mines. A review of the status of trapped miner detection is a...
• Underground Mine Communications (in Four Parts): 2. Paging Systems
  1/1/1977 - Information Circulars
  This Bureau of Mines report summarizes the research, development, and evaluation demonstrations conducted by the Bureau of Mines under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 to improve the means of notifying miners underground, who are away from th...