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2/1/2010 - Information CircularsThis publication provides an historical overview of research undertaken by the U.S. federal government over the last 100 years to improve the health and safety of our nation's miners. Federal research efforts began with the establishment of the U.S. Bur...
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Characteristics of the Top Five Most Frequent Injuries in United States Mining Operations, 2003-20071/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis report describes an alternative method of analyzing and presenting MSHA data for the purpose of identifying high-cost, high-severity injuries and illnesses.
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1/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper discusses some concepts and preliminary test results for a Passive Mine Blast Attenuator (PMBA) that can provide a useful alternative to increasingly larger and stronger stand-alone mine seals.
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12/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis document highlights NIOSH's research and recommendations concerning refuge alternatives, survivability evaluations of refuge chambers, and presents a brief review of the current deployment of refuge chambers in underground coal mines in the U.S.
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11/1/2009 - Conference papersIn this paper, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling results for both bleeder and bleederless ventilation systems are presented and the difference between two systems is discussed.
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9/1/2009 - Reports of InvestigationsThe information in this report was used by MSHA and WVOMHS&T as supporting data in their analyses and investigative reports of the Sago Mine explosion.
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7/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper presents the results of a NIOSH study in collaboration with Acoustical and Vibrations Engineering Consultants Inc. (AVEC) to determine the dominant noise sources on a vibrating screen machine at low frequencies, i.e., 250 to 1,000 Hz.
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11/1/2008 - Conference papersThis paper discusses the development of a thesaurus of mining-related terms. This thesaurus will be used to index NIOSH Mining web site content to facilitate searching that content.
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The guidelines in this report are to be used as a tool to identify areas or conditions that could impact the long-term stability of an underground fluid retention system and to give direction in addressing these situations.
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5/1/2008 - Reports of InvestigationsThis paper presents the results of the full-scale test of a composite polyurethane-aggregate seal in a hydrostatic chamber conducted by NIOSH, and provides an analysis of those results in terms of the structural behavior of the seal.
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