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• Ground Control Issues for Safety Professionals
  11/1/2001 - Book chapters
  Falls of ground continue to be one of the most serious causes of injury to U.S. miners. This chapter provides guidance to safety professionals tasked with preventing groundfall injuries, and includes analysis of MSHA's accident and injury data.
• Haulage Truck Dump Site Safety: An Examination of Reported Injuries
  3/1/2001 - Information Circulars
  Working in elevated areas near an edge is a common hazard for operators of off-highway mobile mining equipment. Serious injuries involving haulage trucks working at dump sites are examined for the period 1988 to 1997.
• Using Fault-Tree Analysis To Focus Mine Safety Research
  2/1/2001 - Conference papers
  One recurring mine safety problem - a dozer falling into a void over a drawpoint on a coal surge pile - was analyzed using fault tree analysis software on a personal computer. The analysis identified basic and intermediate events that led to the burial ...
• Mining Publications List: 1995 - 2000
  1/1/2001 - Catalogs and indexes, NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  A listing of the mining-related publications produced by NIOSH from 1995 to 2000.
• Coal Mine Seismicity and Bumps: Historical Case Studies and Current Field Activity
  8/1/2000 - Conference papers
  Research on techniques that will reduce the hazards in the mining workplace associated with coal bumps.
• Rock Bursting and Seismicity During Ramp Development, Lucky Friday Mine, Mullan, Idaho
  8/1/1998 - Conference papers
  A comprehensive survey of mine seismicity a rock bursting during development of two sublevels at the Lucky Friday Mine, Mullan, ID, was conducted to better define rock failure mechanisms and sources of ground control hazards.
• Technology News 464 - Analysis of Retreat Mining Pillar Stability (ARMPS): Version 4.0 for Windows
  7/1/1997 - Technology News
  The analysis of Retreat Mining Pillar Stability (ARMPS) computer program was developed in 1995 and has been widely accepted by the mining community. A Windows version of ARMPS is now available. It features simplified data input, graphics, and an expande...
• Detection of Downed Trolley Lines Using Arc Signature Analysis
  5/1/1997 - Reports of Investigations
  The article discusses the applicability of computerized signal analysis techniques to identify fault currents existing on coal mine direct-current trolley systems
• Application of Physical Modelling and Particle Flow Analysis to Evaluate Ore-pass Design
  1/1/1997 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An investigation of the hazards in and around ore passes in hard rock mines. Risk assessment methods, such as fault-tree analysis, have been employed to identify the most probable causes of ore-pass failures, define research priorities and analyze the f...
• Investigation of a Rock-Burst Site, Sunshine Mine, Kellogg, Idaho
  1/1/1997 - Conference papers
  Rock masses in deep-level mines are subject to high stresses, which can result in unexpected failure of rock into mined-out openings. Personnel from two research centers of the former U.S. Bureau of Mines, Spokane and Twin Cities, investigated a rock b...