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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0309282799 |
Download Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Coal mine disasters in the United States are relatively rare events; many of the roughly 50,000 miners underground will never have to evacuate a mine in an emergency during their careers. However, for those that do, the consequences have the potential to be devastating. U.S. mine safety practices have received increased attention in recent years because of the highly publicized coal mine disasters in 2006 and 2010. Investigations have centered on understanding both how to prevent or mitigate emergencies and what capabilities are needed by miners to self-escape to a place of safety successfully. This report focuses on the latter - the preparations for self-escape. In the wake of 2006 disasters, the U.S. Congress passed the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 (MINER Act), which was designed to strengthen existing mine safety regulations and set forth new measures aimed at improving accident preparedness and emergency response in underground coal mines. Since that time, the efforts of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) have contributed to safety improvements in the mining industry. However, the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in 2010 served as a reminder to remain ever vigilant on improving the prevention of mine disasters and preparations to help miners survive in the event of emergencies. This study was set in the context of human-systems integration (HSI), a systems approach that examines the interaction of people, tasks, and equipment and technology in the pursuit of a goal. It recognizes this interaction occurs within, and is influenced by, the broader environmental context. A key premise of human-systems integration is that much important information is lost when the various tasks within a system are considered individually or in isolation rather than in interaction with the whole system. Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines, the task of self-escape is part of the mine safety system.
Author | : William Graebner |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780813113395 |
Download Coal-mining Safety in the Progressive Period Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James Westfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Download Administration of the Federal Coal-Mine Safety Act, Calendar Year 1955 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Division of Coal Mine Inspection |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Download Administration of the Federal Coal-Mine Safety Act, 1952-60 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James Westfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Whiteside |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780803247529 |
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From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. Many old-timers in coal-mining communities and even some historians haveøblamed the high fatality rate on ruthless coal barons exploiting miners in the single-minded pursuit of profit. The coal industry preferred to blame careless miners. James Whiteside looks beyond those charges in seeking to explain why the western coal mines were (and, to some degree, still are) dangerous and why territorial, state, and federal laws failed for so long to make them safer. Regulating Danger is the first extended study of the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It exceeds the scope of traditional labor history in focusing on working conditions and the problems of workers instead of unions and strikes. After examining the inherent physical dangers of the work, Whiteside shows how the interplay of economic, social, and technological forces created an envi-ronment of death in the western coal mines. He goes on to discuss evolving industrial and political attitudes toward issues of responsibility for mine safety and government regulation and the fundamental changes in the industry that brought about safer working conditions.
Author | : James Westfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Mine Safety and Health Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Mine safety |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Westfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Download Administration of the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, 1952-61 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
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