Mine accidents causes, prevention and control
4. Type of Mine Accidents • Fatal Accidents cause loss of life • Serious Bodily Injuries – Permanent loss of any part of the body, permanent loss of sight or hearing, fracture of any bones or joints • Reportable Injuries – Other …
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Mining and Ground Falls | Mining | CDC
Falls of rock from the roof are one of the leading causes of injuries and fatalities for mine workers. Common issues with ground falls include: Horizontal stress. Pillar design. Roof support. Rock falls. Slope stability. High …
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Essential Mine Site Safety Guidelines: Protecting Workers …
Drones for Inspections: Drones can be used to inspect unstable or dangerous areas without putting workers at risk.They can provide real-time images and data to identify hazards before workers enter a site. Remote-Controlled Machinery: Advances in remote-controlled equipment allow operators to perform high-risk tasks like drilling and blasting from a …
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Research trends in mining accidents study: A systematic …
The most-reported theme was causes of mining accidents, with 46% from 2015 to 2019. The main cause of mining accidents was mechanical failure, according to the SLR study. …
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What Are the Most Common Causes of Mining Accidents?
The two most common causes of mining accidents are explosions and equipment crushings. Both can cause severe injuries or death. If a mining accident injury leaves you unable to work and support your family, you may be eligible for compensation through workers' compensation or a …
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Common Accidents & Injuries in Underground Mining | T.M.I.
Detailed procedures, rules and precautions prevent injuries as well as deaths in the mining area. The U.S., for example, has lowered its coal mining death rates substantially by recognizing the …
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Digging into Fatigue in Mining
The Single Greatest Cause of Accidents Across High-risk Industries. Across heavy industry, awareness of fatigue risk is growing. In industries such as construction, commercial trucking, and mining, fatigue is the …
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Cause of the Numerous Open Pit Mine Equipment …
accidents often happen because machine manufacturers, employers, and Operators ignore certain safety rules and procedures. Open Pit Mining . Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open cut mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open-air
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Why Do Haul Truck Fatal Accidents Keep Occurring?
Powered haulage continues to be a large safety concern for the mining industry, accounting for approximately 50% of the mining fatal accidents every year. Among these fatal accidents, haul-truck-related accidents are the most common, with 6 of 28 and 6 of 27 fatal accidents occurring in 2017 and 2018, respectively. To better understand why these accidents …
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Critical Causal Path Analysis of Subway Construction Safety Accidents …
AbstractDue to the frequent occurrence of subway construction safety accidents in recent years, construction workers face great safety threat, which produces serious social hazards. The causes of subway construction safety accidents are complex and ...Practical ApplicationsThis study analyzed the causal paths and intrinsic mechanisms of subway …
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Construction and analysis of a coal mine accident causation network
The purpose of studying the accident-causing mechanism is to explain the accident mechanism and provide a reference for risk assessment and accident analysis (Fu et al., 2018).According to the development of accident causation theory, research on the cause mechanisms of coal mine accidents has gone through three main stages.
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Data mining of the essential causes of different types of …
combinations of items or frequent itemsets. Association Rule Mining is defined as [30]: "Let I = {i1, i2, …, in} be a set of n binary at-tributes called factors. Let C = {c1, c2, …, cm} be set of the causes of accidents called the database. Each cause in C has a unique identification number and contains a subset of the items in I.
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Mining Employees Safety and the Application of Information …
The inclusion criteria: (1) the study was published between January 2000 and June 2020; (2) the participants were coal mining employees/coal mining accidents and accidents were work-related; (3) the study focused on identifying causes of coal mining safety issues or accidents, factors that influence unsafe behaviors and accidents in coal mining ...
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A systemic study of mining accident causality: an analysis of …
In general, under the category of accident analysis on workplace factors, all the five factors were significantly contributing to the causes of accidents at the mine site that was investigated as …
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ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF OCCUPATIONAL …
the frequency rate (FR) of mining accidents. In 2016, the FR of Indonesian mining accidents was 1.00, then decreased gradually to 0.70 in 2017, 0.68 in 2018, 0.69 in 2019 and 0.40 in 2020. Then from the data Mining accidents stated that in 2015 to 2019 the number of mining accidents in the fatal category occurred very little, even in
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Gas-dynamic processes and causes of accidents at mines
The possible cause of a hydrogen explosion is not taken into account in coal mine accidents. The appearance of hydrogen and helium in coal samples taken from the mine may indicate the deformation ...
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Mining safely – innovative technologies to prevent mining accidents
Distraction caused by long working hours creating tiredness in truck drivers and machine operators working at the mine site is a common cause of accidents. The technology, capable of constantly detecting the onset of fatigue and micro sleeps in the operators and creating an alert for them, is helpful in preventing such accidents. ...
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Research trends in mining accidents study: A systematic …
Based on these 57 studies, four main themes were developed: the main causes of mining accidents (46%), the prevention of mining accidents (20%), and the challenges of (17%) and impacts of post-mining accidents (17%). The four themes produced a total of 35 sub-themes. Mechanical failure was identified as the main cause of mining accidents and ...
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Discovering Workers' Actions Leading to Severe Construction Accidents
Historical construction accident reports have been widely used to gain insights into the primary causes of past incidents in construction. Previous studies have successfully identified accident causes and affected body parts. However, there remains a gap in understanding the high-risk actions of workers.
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Injuries among Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Miners in Ghana
The leading underlying causes of accidents resulting in injuries among ASGM operatives in this study from the hospital records were collapse of mine pits (13%), dynamite/explosive blasts (10%),and falls (at site and into the mine pits-5%).The causes of accidents resulting in injuries as analyzed from the media sources also indicated that falls ...
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Mining the accident causes of railway dangerous goods …
The RDGT system is a complex socio-technical system, and the occurrence of accidents involves the complex interaction of causes (Slavinskaite and Batarliene, 2022, Huang et al., 2020c, Huang et al., 2020d).At present, some researches on RDGT accidents analysis only focus on single cause, such as human-related causes, equipment failures, terrible environment …
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Five Harmony Gold employees die in separate fatal mining accidents
Harmony Gold Mining Company reported two fatalities at its Doornkop Mine in Soweto and Joel Mine near Theunissen in the Free State Province. on February 4, resulting in the loss of five mineworkers.. Two employees lost their lives following a mining incident at a development end at Doornkop. All blasting operations have been temporarily suspended at this …
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Investigation of the mining accidents at "Stan Terg" mine
As the major industries, mining has high potential risk of accidents. Historically minerals have supported humane development and civilization but at the same time this industry has been ...
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A Systemic Study of Mining Accident Causality: An Analysis of 91 Mining
"This paper aims to demonstrate how a systemic approach can be applied to the analysis of the causes of accidents in South African mines. The accident analysis framework used was developed previously by the authors from the combination of the Mark III version of the Swiss Cheese model, Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM), the Nertney Wheel model, and safety …
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Root causes of coal mine accidents: Characteristics of safety culture
Coal mine accidents pose a serious threat to miners and the surrounding environment. Despite a recent downward trend in the numbers of major accidents and casualties in Chinese coal mining enterprises, accident reoccurrence remains an on-going issue for the industry.This paper aims to identify the root causes, namely, the characteristics of safety …
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December 4, 2021 Fatality
Joe Fritz, Mine Safety and Health Training Specialist, traveled to the mine site to review all training records involving the accident. MSHA's accident investigation team conducted an examination of the accident scene, interviewed miners, and reviewed conditions and work practices relevant to the accident.
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Data mining of the essential causes of different types of …
1. Introduction. Accident analysis is used to discover the causes of workplace injuries and devise methods for preventing them in the future [1].It is thought that the only way to find any common or unifying factors in accident events is to look at aggregated accident data rather than just one case at a time [2].Analysts have conventionally used statistical techniques …
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ACCIDENTS IN MINING AND QUARRY SITES: RATE OF OCCURRENCES AND CAUSES
The study reveals that accidents occur at a low rate at the mining and quarry sites in Malaysia. Different causes of accident were identified such as flying objects or debris, untidy sites ...
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Injuries and Fatalities in Mining: Causes and Prevention
Despite significant improvements in technology and safety protocols, injuries and fatalities continue to occur at disturbing rates in mining operations. These incidents not only …
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Root causes of coal mine accidents: Characteristics of safety culture
Coal mine accidents are complex occurrences resulting from the contributions of several elements (Sari et al., 2004).The occurrence of an accident is known to be a chain reaction of multiple adverse events (Fu, et al., 2018), like Heinrich's Domino theory.The accident "mechanism" is a process by which different factors interact to cause or prevent accidents …
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