Safety issues in coal mining and the impact of IoT were identified and categorized into three main factors: general safety issues, environmental factors, and mining information technology.
Solution: All-in-one wireless systems that combine atmospheric monitoring with tracking and communication. Wireless antennas in the mine gather data from methane and CO sensors, along with ...
Northeast India has a good deposit of sub-bituminous tertiary coal. The northeast Indian coals have unusual physico-chemical characteristics such as high sulfur, volatile matter and vitrinite content, and low ash content. In addition, many environmental sensitive organic and mineral bound elements such as Fe, Mg, Bi, Al, V, Cu, Cd, Ni, Pb, …
1 Introduction. Although major advancements in mine health and safety have contributed to a decreasing number of fatalities each year, mining is still a high-risk …
However, issues associated with coal mi ning such coal gangue, exha ust emission, coal ash, waste noise, water, and surface subsidence, have r aised serious environ mental concerns
Main thinks the Obama years showed that federal policy can improve mine safety. The country's biggest gains in mine safety have come through legislation — namely the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, which led to MSHA's founding in 1977. But meaningful changes could today come without legislation through granular …
Coal mining is regulated under a comprehensive federal safety law (Federal Mine Safety and Health Act) that is administered by the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and …
by the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). • Underground coal mines are thoroughly inspected at least four times a year. • With 735 coal mine inspectors – about one for every 2.5 coal mines – MSHA spends on average more than 500 hours annually inspecting each coal mine. • MSHA and its inspectors:
Health and Safety Executive, London (United Kingdom). Mr. J. Olyslaegers, National President, Trade Union of Mineworkers of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium. Mr. S. G. Oyarzun-Ceron, Mining Engineer and Adviser on Safety in Mining, National Coal Enterprise SA, Santiago de Chile (Chile). (footnote continued overleaf) V
Basically, measurements of the safety culture require in-depth investigations including an analysis of accident information. To identify critical defects of the safety culture within Chinese coal mine industries, it is necessary to determine a baseline based on statistical analysis of a large number of coal accidents with different types in the past, …
The mining industry has made significant improvements in health and safety over the last decade, reducing the incidence rates of both fatalities and serious injuries. However, the mining industry still has one of the highest rates of fatalities of any industry. In the 12 years to 2015, the fatality rate in the mining industry decreased by 65% from 12.4 worker …
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One of the important issue involved in coal mining is coal dust, which can lead to a series of health problems (Yao et al., 2020).Nearly the whole mining processes is accompanied by coal dust generation (Shahan and Reed, 2019).Fig. 2 depicts the processes of coal dust generation during mining, showing that dust is generated during …
CORESafety®: Committed to Excellence in Mining Safety is an initiative developed and led by the members of the National Mining Association to achieve an aggressive safety goal of eliminating fatalities and reducing mining's injury rate by 50 percent over the next five years through implementation of safety and health management systems. Today's …
BEIJING, Feb. 2 -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang has signed a decree of the State Council, unveiling a new regulation on coal mine production safety. The new regulation, which takes effect on May 1, 2024, aims to improve production safety at the nation's coal mines, prevent and reduce safety-related accidents, and enhance protection of people's ...
Coal, as one of the vital sources of energy in China, has raised widespread concerns regarding its safety issues amidst the country's economic growth driven by coal. To address this concern, this study employed the Kuznets curve, multiple linear regression, and data envelopment analysis models to investigate the impact of Chinese coal …
The safety statistics demonstrate that coal mining, and particularly underground coal mining poses the greatest challenge in terms of worker safety. The research program at the NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory has been geared to address coal mining …
Different issues and events triggered each of the specific conflicts, which began in 1890. In 1912, miners on West ia's Paint and Cabin Creeks struck for higher pay; when the coal operators called in the notorious Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to break the strike, violence erupted. ... Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The ...
Coal mine safety monitoring with wireless low-cost sensor networks: ... There is a gap in the publication of advances in Industry 4.0 issues in the field of mining, since there is not enough information published in scientific databases. It is known that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are part of the Industry 4.0 …
Safety inspectors in China's third-largest coal-mining regions ordered the suspension of operations of two more mines in northwest Shaanxi province, with more than a dozen temporarily closed in ...
CORESafety®: Committed to Excellence in Mining Safety is an initiative developed and led by the members of the National Mining Association to achieve an aggressive safety goal of eliminating fatalities and reducing …
Mine gas, fires, dust and coal burst are major issues in the coal mining industry with severe consequences. We are developing technologies and techniques to mitigate these hazards to protect workers health and safety. ... Not only do these issues affect the safety and health of people working in the industry, they can also have a significant ...
The safety issues will also change with the changes of people's safety needs and safety technical means, and will also cause changes in the corresponding safety management theories. ... The coal mine safety management thinking based on risk pre-control mainly includes hazard identification, hazard classification, hazard dynamic risk …
Nowadays, monitoring aspects related to sustainability and safety in mining activities worldwide are a priority, to mitigate socio-environmental impacts, promote efficient use of water, reduce carbon footprint, use renewable energies, reduce mine waste, and minimize the risks of accidents and fatalities. In this context, the implementation of …
Some experts say that underground coal mining is the most dangerous since workers are exposed to so many hazards and are always at risk of cave-ins. …
Read chapter 6 Emerging Issues in Mining Safety and Health: The U.S. mining sector has the highest fatality rate of any industry in the country. ... (NIOSH, 1995) suggest lowering the standard for coal dust and silica. The Mining Program should be prepared, by working with its stakeholders to decide on a desirable approach, to address the ...
The high death rate inspired a nationwide campaign to enhance coal mining safety and crack down on substandard mining sites. By 2019, deaths in coal mine disasters plunged to 316 nationwide. ... sources said the consolidation of oversight will give the regulator greater power and independence in supervising safety issues in the …
China implemented several measures in 2016 to mitigate the occurrence of accidents and deaths in coal mines [2], including "Improving the standard of coal mine industry admission", "Closing coal mines with backward production capacities", "Special treatment for gas and water disasters", "Strengthening coal mine safety infrastructure", …
Major improvements in coal mine safety have been made in the US since the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977. The fatal injury rate in underground coal mines between …
Underground coal mining has a strong disturbance on surrounding rock strata, causing inevitable water inflow into mined spaces, which seriously affects safety production. Mine water disaster is regarded as one of the most critical problems in coal mining and, thus, has been a research hotspot in coal mining. This review focuses on …
