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• Operating Speed Assessments of Underground Mining Equipment
  3/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This publication details the results of NIOSH studies to examine operating speeds based on usage and seam height.
• An Analysis of the Potential of Roof Screening to Reduce Workers' Compensation Costs
  2/1/2010 - Conference papers
  The goal of this study was to determine the potential saving in workers' compensation (WC) premiums that could be achieved due to a reduction in rock fall injuries after roof screening.
• Trends in Electrical Injury in the U.S., 1992-2002
  7/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper updates an earlier report by the authors that studied electrical injuries from 1992 to 1998. The previous information is expanded and supplemented with fatal and nonfatal injury rates and trends through 2002.
• Analysis of Mine Fires for All U.S. Metal/Nonmetal Mining Categories, 1990-2001
  11/1/2004 - Information Circulars
  This report analyzes mine fires for all U.S. underground and surface metal/nonmetal mining categories during 1990-2001 by state and six successive 2-year time periods.
• Inexperience as a Contributor to Workplace Injury
  1/9/2024 - Research projects
  A project to characterize the effect that inexperience has on risk of injury and to reduce related risks for miners new to the industry, to specific worksites, or to their jobs or tasks.
• Mining Fact Sheets
  4/1/2022 - Data and statistics
  Mining Fact Sheets covering a variety of topics of general interest relating to mining operations, employees, fatalities, and nonfatal lost-time injuries.
• Burden Associated with Nonfatal Slip and Fall Injuries in the Surface Stone, Sand, and Gravel Mining Industry
  12/1/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A analysis documenting the burden associated with nonfatal slip, trip, and fall incidents at surface stone, sand, and gravel mines from 2008 through 2017.
• Surveillance & Statistics
  10/25/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop and strengthen the use of surveillance data to identify priorities, trends, and emerging issues within the mining industry.
• Economic Methods and Analyses Program
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop an economics program to determine the economic consequences of occupational fatal and non-fatal injury and use that information to improve program planning, intervention evaluation, and policy analysis.
• Injury Surveillance and Safety Considerations for Large-Format Lead-Acid Batteries Used in Mining Applications
  3/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article investigates the design and implementation of large-format lead-acid batteries to identify safety interventions that can mitigate these inherent hazards.