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• Identification of Areas at Risk for Coal Bursts in Deep Cover Room and Pillar Mines
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to define the geologic and stress criteria associated with an elevated risk of coal bursts, considering both U.S. and international experience through visits to coalfields.
• Float Dust Control in Underground Coal Mines
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to reduce float dust deposition in return and belt airways of underground coal longwall mines through laboratory and field evaluation of novel dust prevention, capture, and suppression methods and dissemination of related findings.
• Evaluation of LIDAR as a Novel Remote Dust Sensing Technology
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to evaluate the feasibility of using Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR), a remote sensing technology based on laser reflection, as a dust monitoring tool in the mining industry.
• Evaluation and Development of Hearing Loss Interventions
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to improve the effectiveness of hearing loss prevention interventions through development, refinement, promotion, and long-term evaluation.
• Enhanced Utilization of Personal Dust Monitor Feedback
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to test an intervention to help miners use personal dust monitor feedback more effectively to reduce their exposure to respirable coal mine dust.
• Engineering Noise Controls for Longwall Mining Systems
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop durable noise controls that reduce the noise exposure of longwall mining system crews and facilitate the commercialization of the controls to make them available for all miners.
• Engineering Noise Controls for Haul Trucks and Load Haul Dumps (LHDs)
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop, evaluate, and implement engineering controls to reduce noise over-exposures among haul truck and LHD operators.
• Engineering Design for Mine Fire Prevention and Atmospheric Monitoring Systems
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop engineering data to improve knowledge of mine fires and their interactions with mine ventilation networks; atmospheric monitoring systems; and fire, prevention, detection, and suppression systems.
• Empirical Guidelines for Longwall Ground Control Design
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to update the database of case histories upon which the Analysis of Longwall Pillar Stability (ALPS) software bases its recommended stability factors.
• 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.