Results 1 - 6 of 6

• U.S. Bureau of Mines/NIOSH Mining Electrical Safety Research: A Legacy of Protection Against Shock, Fires, and Explosions
  2/1/2010 - Conference papers
  This paper reviews the 100-year history of federal electrical safety research in the U.S mining industry, originally by the US Bureau of Mines, and as carried on today by NIOSH.
• The Brookwood Disaster and Electrical Requirements for Hazardous (Classified) Locations
  9/1/2007 - Conference papers
  Researchers with NIOSH studied the electrical equipment ignition sources for the Brookwood and other disasters to develop recommendations for preventing similar disasters.
• Protecting Miners from Electrical Arcing Injury
  1/1/2007 - Conference papers
  NFPA 70E is a generally accepted industry guideline document and can be applied to mining workplaces after an analysis of the mine power system electrical arcing hazards has been completed (and Hazard/Risk Categories determined).
• An Alarm to Warn of Overhead Power Line Contact by Mobile Equipment
  9/1/2001 - Conference papers
  A report on research to develop a device that alerts workers when a power line has been contacted by equipment. The approach being investigated is based on measuring electric current flow to ground through a machine during a line contact.
• Electrical Fault Detection on Downed DC Trolley Lines
  2/1/1997 - Conference papers
  NIOSH has conducted research to improve electrical fault detection on coal mine direct current (dc) trolley systems. Tests were conducted at cooperating mines to assist in developing a neural-network-based detection algorithm for distinguishing between ...
• Electric Shock Prevention
  10/1/1978 - Conference papers
  Electric shocks are a serious problem in the mining environment. Electrical accidents, resulting in personal injury, due to improper or complete lack of grounding of electrically operated mining machines, form a significant percentage of the overall ele...