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4/1/2022 - Data and statisticsMining Fact Sheets covering a variety of topics of general interest relating to mining operations, employees, fatalities, and nonfatal lost-time injuries.
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8/1/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study applying the task-technology fit framework to investigate the fit between mobile proximity detection systems and mining relative to health and safety
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Demonstrating the Financial Impact of Mining Injuries with the Safety Pays in Mining Web Application2/19/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article discussing the development of the Safety Pays in Mining app, how the app is used to show the true costs of mining injuries, and how mines can benefit from using it.
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2/10/2019 - Research projectsA project to reduce manual materials handling injuries in mining through increased usage of materials handling solutions and safe practices.
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10/1/2017 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesAn article describing Safety Pays in Mining — a new, free web app from NIOSH.
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8/1/2017 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper analyzes U.S. roof bolter fatal and nonfatal lost-time injury data at underground work locations for all commodities from 2004 through 2013 and determines risk indices for six roof bolting tasks.
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7/10/2017 - Technology NewsThis Technology News describes the Safety Pays in Mining web application, which brings awareness to companies about the unknown costs of injuries and the distribution of these costs. The web application is available for use on the NIOSH Mining website.
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2/17/2017 - News articlesUse the Safety Pays in Mining web application from NIOSH to learn how worker injuries—medical bills plus other costs—affect mining companies' finances.
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11/16/2016 - Research projectsA pilot project to assess the types of injuries mine workers sustain when handling machine covers and guards and to determine the focus of future machine cover and guard redesign efforts.
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7/18/2016A contract to survey the landscape of mine hazards through a lens wide enough to capture all mine operations, fine-grained enough to pinpoint hazards for each specific type of operation, and responsive enough to detect new hazards as they emerge.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program