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• Emergency Response Planning for Small Mines: Who Needs It?
  1/1/1994 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This paper discusses emergency response planning with a special emphasis on small minesites. It addresses the importance of an emergency response plan and offers some tips for developing a useful document.
• Probability of Making a Successful Mine Escape While Wearing a Self-Contained Self-Rescuer
  12/1/1992 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This Bureau of Mines report examines survival odds for a prototypical escape from a mine, and illustrates how these odds change when SCSR training is improved.
• How Smoke Hinders Escape from Coal Mine Fires
  1/1/1992 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This study predicts the level of smoke that miners might meet while trying to escape a coal mine fire and describes how smoke would impede their safe escape.
• Roof Fall Entrapment: Eyewitness Account by Dave Garry
  1/1/1992 - Training materials, Videos and multimedia
  A videotaped interview with a miner helper who witnessed a roof fall that convered the continuous mining machine. An instructor's guide is included to help you use this video as part of an effective training session.
• Probability of Making a Successful Mine Escape While Wearing a Self-Contained Self-Rescuer - A Computer Simulation
  1/1/1990 - Reports of Investigations
  In an effort to estimate the chances of a miner making a successful escape while wearing a self-contained self rescuer (SCSR), a computer simulation was developed.
• Development of a Phase Difference of Arrival Technique for Location of Trapped Miners
  9/1/1983 - Open File Reports
  Current technologies for locating trapped miners from the surface are either simple direction finders or time difference pulse systems that have accuracy limitations. Developing technologies using full-vector field measurements at several receiving poin...
• Performance Evaluation of Electromagnetic Techniques for the Location of Trapped Miners
  1/1/1982 - Reports of Investigations
  The Bureau of Mines (NIOSH Mining) has conducted field studies in coal mines throughout the United States to determine the effectiveness of electromagnetic techniques in locating miners trapped underground following a mine accident.
• A Feasibility Study for the Detection of Weak Electromagnetic Signal/ Bursts With Hard-Limited Arrays
  11/1/1981 - Contract reports
  A prototype detector using electromagnetic signals for finding trapped miners has previously been built and tested. The signals are generated from transmitters carried on the miner's belt and powered by his head lamp battery and the receiver is a human ...
• Assessment of Present Electromagnetic Techniques for the Location of Trapped Miners
  7/1/1980 - Conference papers
  Field studies have been conducted in a large number of coal mines throughout the U.S. to determine the effectiveness of electromagnetic techniques in locating men trapped underground following a mine disaster.
• Seismic Detection of Trapped Miners Using In-Mine Geophones
  1/1/1976 - Reports of Investigations
  A seismic system which utilizes in-mine geophones to detect trapped miners has been developed. Tests at the Bureau of Mines safety research mine at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, and at two operating mines indicate such a system has a maximum detection range i...