Worldwide, the number of accidents and fatalities associated with coal mine explosions has declining steadily. The exception is China, where such accidents have increased due to rapid industrial expansion and poor investment in mine safety and management (Yuan et al., 2015a).The most disastrous mine explosion to date …
In Fig. 1, of the 556 severe and above coal mine accidents that occurred from 2000 to 2022, 285 were gas explosion accidents, accounting for 51.12% of the …
Preliminary investigation indicates the cause was a coal and gas explosion, Xinhua said. China had a series of fatal coal mine accidents last year despite efforts to improve mine safety. Coal remains a major source of electricity in the country, even as China far outpaces the rest of the world in installing solar and wind facilities to combat ...
Large-scale coal mine gas explosion (CMGE) accidents have occurred occasionally and exerted a devastating effect on society. Therefore, it is essential to systematically identify the ...
DOI: 10.1016/J.PSEP.2018.05.002 Corpus ID: 103261920; Focusing on the patterns and characteristics of extraordinarily severe gas explosion accidents in Chinese coal mines @article{Zhang2018FocusingOT, title={Focusing on the patterns and characteristics of extraordinarily severe gas explosion accidents in Chinese coal mines}, author={Jinjia …
The mine was owned by the state run Yima Coal Mine Group. 52 miners were pulled to safety from the mine. The accident was caused by an explosion in a tunnel after a minor earthquake. November 2011: Coal mine blast kills 20, traps 23 in China ... ↑ Kucuker H. Occupational fatalities among coal mine workers in Zonguldak, Turkey, 1994-2003 ...
Large-scale coal mine gas explosion (CMGE) accidents have occurred occasionally and exerted a devastating effect on society. Therefore, it is essential to …
The most common mining accidents were due to coal dust explosion and blasting-related accidents such as fly rock, premature blasts, and misfires [5].
Methane gas present in underground coal mines is the major cause of explosions. • Use of defective safety lamps and naked lights are prominent ignition …
Underground coal mining, Fatal accident analysis, Firedamp explosions, Occupational health and safety, Statistical analysis Anahtar Sözcükler: ... Accidents in underground coal mines are caused by collapses, pillar outbursts, gas and dust explosions, coal dust explosions, blasting accidents, roof falls, transport and hoist-
This indicates that coal mine accidents are quite fatal; implying that coal mine accidents cause a significant number of fatalities amongst the coal miners. (c) Different type of accidents has resulted in different number of coal miners fatalities. For example mine collapse caused 51% of the fatalities, gas explosion 17%, and mine blast 16% etc.
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "An analysis of fatal gas accidents in Chinese coal mines" by Lei Wang et al. ... This paper presents a comparative study of gas explosion occurrences and causes in coal mines in China and the US. 170 coal mine accidents related to gas explosions in China are statistically … Expand. 35. Save... 1. 2. …
In this research, the inhibition effect and microscopic mechanism of NH 4 H 2 PO 4 on the macroscopic deflagration characteristics of methane (9.5 vol%) mixed with three coal samples were studied. Experimental results show that the higher the concentration of added NH 4 H 2 PO 4, the more pronounced the inhibition effect on the …
Underground coal mining is accepted as one of the most dangerous workplaces in the world which has high risks by their nature contain. The reason for this is that the presence of methane is a naturally immutable fact in most underground coal mines. Therefore, besides working under high risky conditions, struggling with nature in …
This study focuses on data mining of coal mine accidents and the identification of core causes. However, the construction of an accident prediction …
In Fig. 1, of the 556 severe and above coal mine accidents that occurred from 2000 to 2022, 285 were gas explosion accidents, accounting for 51.12% of the overall number, with 6378 fatalities, accounting for 56.74% of the overall number. Thus, it is of major significance to analyse the causes of coal mine gas explosion accidents and to
The ESCMA categories in Chinese coal mines are gas explosion, coal and gas outburst, coal dust explosion, and fire and mine inundation. ... For these accidents, ESGEAs occurred 126 times and caused 7502 fatalities (Table 3) (SAWS, 2005, SAWS, 2007; SACMS, 2017; Wang and Li, 2002), which accounts for 69% and 66% of the total, …
Of the many types of coal mine accidents in China, gas explosion accidents are undoubtedly the most numerous and devastating type of accident (Xie et al., 2022).In Fig. 1, of the 556 severe and above coal mine accidents that occurred from 2000 to 2022, 285 were gas explosion accidents, accounting for 51.12% of the overall number, with …
The cause of the massive explosion that killed at least 25 miners in West ia yesterday remains unknown. But officials think methane gas likely contributed to the fatal blast at Massey...
Keywords Underground coal mining · Accident · Methane · Explosion · Fuzzy AHP · Fuzzy TOPSIS Introduction Coal mining is one of the riskiest occupations in the world due to its complex nature. It is risky because the employ-ees have to adapt to working conditions that are constantly changing. Thus, occupational accident risk in coal mines
In a later interview with ICN, Love expressed skepticism that the explosion could have been caused by mining activity, given the depth at which shearing takes place. She said her opinion was based ...
When a water well atop a coal mine is located inside the house, the situation is "very serious," putting people in their homes at risk of death, said Spadaro.
The most common causes of accidents in coal mining are firedamp and dust explosions, landslips, mine fires, and technical failures related to transport and …
December 1907, known as "Bloody December", is the deadliest on record for the U.S. underground coal mining industry. That month 703 miners died in 5 mine explosions. …
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll has risen to 13 in a coal mine accident in central China, state media said Sunday. Three people remain missing after Friday's …
In this way, repeated diagnosis and investigation of the causes of gas explosion risk in Babao Coal Mine can help to obtain real-time gas explosion risk and reduce the blindness of risk diagnosis, so that achieve the goal of reducing gas explosion risk to a safe value. Download: Download high-res image (194KB) Download: Download …
Gas explosion caused by electric spark, roof failure (Tong et al., 2019) Ventilation problem, faulty ventilating equipment, blasting problem, electrician working problem ... Furthermore, Wang et al. (2018) analyzed 58 coal mining fatal accidents in Shandong, China, from 2010 to 2014 and concluded that safety education is important …
This database contains 2497 known Nova Scotia coal mining fatalities. Names, dates, places, mines, and causes of death have been painstakingly compiled. Despite this, it is by no means a complete list. Fatalities occurred before records were kept; descriptions of incidents and those involved were lost along with coal company records.
Frequent accidents in underground coal mines result from accumulation of gases, gas explosion, mine blast, mine collapse, falling stone, and so on. Consequently, the maximum number of fatal and non-fatal accidents are caused by a gas explosion after mine collapse, which is the main objective of this paper.
Introduction. As of now, China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal (Wang et al., 2014). Although the number of fatalities has steadily decreased year by year, compared with the United States under the same safety performance index, the world's major coal-producing country, there is still a great gap of safety in coal mines …
China is the largest coal producer in the world, producing an estimated 3.87 billion tonnes of coal output in 2014 (the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, 2014).China is also the largest coal consumer in the world (Niu, 2014).According to China's National Energy Development Strategy Plan (2014–2020), coal will continue to …
Section snippets Causes of gas explosion accidents. The stable operation of coal mine safety production systems is affected by the nonlinear action of many factors, such as nature and society, while the gas power system is constantly changing in the time-space sequence owing to unsafe human behaviour, material states, and environmental …
The randomness of gas explosion accidents is intensified owing to naked fires, coal spontaneous combustion, electric sparks, metal surface impacts, or friction sparks that can cause the detonation of gases in coal mines. The coal mine production system is a complex adaptive system, and the working environment is complex and …
accidents (leading to over 10 deaths) and 12,582 fatalities. occurred in coal mines in China from 2000 to 2021. Among. them, 298 accidents belong to coal mine …
Coal is a major energy source in China. Though the proportion of coal consumption in the country's energy mix has generally decreased from 2011 to 2020, excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, it still constitutes more than half of the total (Fig. 1).However, coal production is a multifaceted and dangerous undertaking that involves …
Methane gas present in underground coal mines is the major cause of explosions. ... approximately 50% of total fatalities in Indian coal mines were linked to fires and explosions (Ray et al., 2017). As revealed in Table 1, of the 39 explosions occurred within this timeframe, seven were catastrophic, each linked to more than 50 fatalities …
They not only cause fatalities, but also bring production losses and huge financial burdens for mining companies. In 2009, a total of 157 gas explosions were responsible for 755 fatalities in Chinese coal mines. This number represented 28.7% of all Chinese coal mine fatalities (Huang, 2010). A total of two explosions in the Pike River …
In this section, analysis of Bhatdee coal mine disaster, an explosion involving methane followed by coal dust explosions has been completed. Purpose of this case study is twofold: (1) to provide specifics on mining accidents beyond the statistical perspective, and (2) to identify the root causes along with the all possible or probable …
