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• Technology News 522 - Blast Area Security: Flyrock Safety
  12/1/2006 - Technology News
  NIOSH has released communication products about flyrock safety via information brochures, flashcards, and toolbox talk materials. These products target the mining and construction industries, and can be used for employee and visitor training.
• Toolbox Training on Flyrock Awareness
  12/1/2005 - Training materials
  A training product to improve blast safety by providing information about blasting to those who work around blast sites
• Blasting Safety - Revisiting Site Security
  2/1/2005 - Conference papers
  This paper examines the factors related to injuries due to inadequate blasting shelters and blast area security, and identifies mitigation techniques.
• Fatal Accidents Due to Flyrock and Lack of Blast Area Security and Working Practices in Mining
  11/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes six representative fatalities due to flyrock and lack of blast area security in coal and nonmetal mines. Several mines were visited to collect information relative to working practices aimed at mitigating blasting hazards.
• Blasting and Explosives
  9/18/2015 - Catalogs and indexes, Research areas
  NIOSH Mining Program page on blasting and explosives.
• An Analysis and Prevention of Flyrock Accidents in Surface Blasting Operations
  2/1/2004 - Conference papers
  Discusses several flyrock injury incidents at surface mines and construction sites and describes some injury mitigation techniques.
• Blasting Injuries in Surface Mining with Emphasis on Flyrock and Blast Area Security
  1/1/2004 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes several fatal injury case studies, analyzes causative factors, and emphasizes preventive measures.
• A Summary of Fatal Accidents Due to Flyrock and Lack of Blast Area Security in Surface Mining, 1989 to 1999
  2/1/2002 - Conference papers
  This paper summarizes flyrock and blast area security fatalities from 1989-1999, examining causative factors. Accident data indicates that flyrock and lack of blast area security were primary causes of blasting related injuries in surface mining.
• Flyrock Issues in Blasting
  2/1/2001 - Conference papers
  A compilation of the primary causes of flyrock in surface mining blasting operations and reasons a safe blast area was not secured.