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• Cripple Creek Deep Cut: An Exercise for Remote Control Miner Operators and Face Crews
  10/1/1999 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This document contains most of the materials needed to conduct a training exercise for remote control miner operators and face crews.
• Focus on Prevention: Conducting a Fire Risk Assessment
  10/1/1999 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials
  The first step to emergency preparedness is defining and analyzing hazards. Although all hazards should be addressed, resource limitations usually do not allow this to happen all at once.
• In-depth Survey Report: Control Technology for Environmental Enclosures - The Effect of Wind Speed Upon Aerosol Penetration Into an Enclosure at Clean Air Filter, Defiance, IA
  2/1/1999 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  The effect of wind speed upon aerosol penetration into an idealized enclosure was studied.
• Rock Falls - Preventing Rock Fall Injuries in Underground Mines
  1/1/1999 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Videos and multimedia
  This video teaches the importance of proper roof scaling in underground mining to avoid injury and improve work conditions.
• Program of Research - A Summary of Research in Progress during Fiscal Years 98
  4/1/1998 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  The program of research for NIOSH in fiscal year 1998.
• Silica...It's Not Just Dust
  1/1/1997 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This pamphlet provided information on what rock drillers can do to protect themselves from silica dust, which may cause silicosis. The role of exposure to silica dust in the development silicosis was discussed.
• Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust: Occupational Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust
  9/1/1995 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  Information regarding adverse health effects resulting from exposure to respirable coal mine dust was reviewed as a basis for the development of new occupational safety and health standards. Recommendations are provided concerning respirable coal mine d...
• This Is Mining...
  7/1/1995 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  Mining is the branch of industry involving the exploration and removal of minerals from the earth. Mining is one of the oldest and most important endeavors of humankind, because it provides the raw ingredients for most of the material world around us an...
• Proceedings: Mechanics and Mitigation of Violent Failure in Coal and Hard-Rock Mines
  5/1/1995 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  Papers presented at a USBM technology transfer seminar describe the causes of violent material failure in U.S. mines, measurement techniques for monitoring events that result in violent failure, and mitigation techniques for controlling failure.
• Occurrence and Remediation of Coal Mine Bumps: A Historical Review
  1/1/1995 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  One of the most difficult, longstanding engineering problems associated with coal mining is the catastrophic failure of cog mine structures known as bumps. For more than 70 years, researchers and practitioners have assembled a wealth of technical info.