Mining is bad for health: a voyage of discovery
Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, give rise to a range of diseases that affect miners. I look at mining and health from various …
Review on Improvements to the Safety Level of Coal …
Mining expects to relieve or solve coal mine safety, health and intensive labor issues and ensure energy security by applying intelligent coal mining. This paper fully reviews the promotion of …
Safety Improvement of Sustainable Coal Transportation in Mines: …
Coal mine safety issues due to insufficient managerial safety efforts can even interrupt the coal mine production process, thereby reducing coal production. The manager's production and safety efforts are denoted by e 1 and e 2, respectively. These efforts can be measured by safety investments. For example, an increase in the …
Global evolutional trend of safety in coal mining industry: a
Mining safety is recognized as one of the factors influencing the mining industry's long-term viability. Therefore, we did a bibliometric analysis to take stock of safety management in the coal mining industry. This study suggests a three-step strategy, comprising literature extraction and screening, …
Coal explained
The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates (as of October 2022) that in 2021, CO 2 emissions from burning coal for energy accounted for about 20% of total U.S. energy-related CO 2 emissions and for nearly 60% of total CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector. In the past, fly ash was released into the air through the …
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Fatality and injury data continue to highlight the need to develop new or improve existing technologies or adapt technologies from other industries to address safety and health issues in surface and underground mines related to the coal, metal, non-metal, and stone, sand, and gravel mining sectors.
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In addition to partnerships, the NIOSH Mining Program receives advice from the Mine Safety and Health Research Advisory Committee (MSHRAC), which is a Federal Advisory Committee initially established under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-173) and is comprised of representatives from our major …
How the Coal Mining Industry Has Become Safer Today
Today, coal mines follow rigorous safety procedures, high standards for health and safety, and also make sure that each worker receives proper education and training. These, among various other steps, have helped in making significant improvements in the safety of underground and opencast mining. Besides, the World Coal Association …
How the rise of copper reveals clean energy's dark side
Its price nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 in the US. That's partly because copper's role in the transition to clean energy cannot be overstated. "We're really going to have to re-engineer ...
Impact of past mining on public safety: seismicity in area
This paper focuses on the impact of past mining on public safety. It emphasizes the need to understand the induced seismic hazard and consequently improve the post-mining management procedures and legislations, as many mining sites are located in proximity to populated areas. Due to many challenges and complexity of the …
Improving Mine Safety and Health
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 …
Mental health in mine workers: a literature review
Introduction. The mining work has been identified as one of the most hazardous environment for the work activity that exist around the world 1).It's defined as a high load work, featured with risky conditions and organization systems that involve long distances from workers residences, high demand due shift work schedules and job strain …
Mining Safety: A Comprehensive Guide | SafetyCulture
Importance of Mining Safety. Mining is the foundation of many industries, providing vital raw materials for manufacturing goods, energy, and infrastructure. The modern world depends on its end products, from fossil fuels to metals and minerals. But their destructive consequences are also undeniable. Ensuring the safety of the people …
Emerging Issues in Mining Safety and Health
The Mining Program attempts to identify issues emerging in the next 5 to 10 years and has identified production demands, workforce issues, and mining practices as areas of future concern. The committee foresees …
Frontiers | Mining Employees Safety and the …
Safety issues in coal mining and the impact of IoT were identified and categorized into three main factors: general safety …
Health and Safety Risks and Benefits
Chapter 3 identified technologies that will benefit major components of the industry in the areas of exploration, mining, and processing. This chapter discusses concerns for potential new health hazards arising from the introduction of new technology. At the beginning of the twentieth century approximately 3,000 coal miners and 1,000 metal/nonmetal workers …
A review of water rock interaction in underground coal mining: …
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 …
In Depth: China's Unfinished Fight for Mine Safety
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. But …
Mining Employees Safety and the Application of Information …
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. Recently, the coal mines had become mechanized and automated leading to improved safety, productivity, and cost.
Safety in Coal Mines
Coal Mines. 295 fatalities from 223 accidents in 1951-60 to 170 fatalities from 140 fatal accidents in 1991-2000 and. Annual average figure in the first decade of the new …
Safe Mining Practices: 18 Mine Safety Tips | T.M.I.
The following 18 tips can increase the safety of your mining facility. 1. Prioritize Planning. Whether in surface or underground projects, it's critical for miners to develop thorough plans before beginning work. Taking time to calculate the best approach can help the process to go more smoothly and protect the well being of the whole crew.
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS | Coal Mining …
The environmental conditions in existing and new mining areas should be maintained and, if possible, improved. In underground mining, this will involve controlling drainage, acid mine water, refuse piles, dust, noise, and subsidence and in surface mining, maintaining the optimum environmental conditions for reclamation of the mined areas. 7.
Health Disparities of Coal Miners and Coal Mining Communities
plied for serious unresolved safety issues, and cited mines were not closed (Moussa, 2(07). In 1969, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act (Coal Act) was passed (USDL, n.d.b). Unlike pre vious legislation, the Coal Act outlined vigorous regula tions and mandated comprehensive assessment of coal mine safety. Along with the increase in ...
Emerging Issues in Mining Safety and Health
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. …
Miner Health Matters | Mine Safety and Health Administration …
Miner Health Matters. The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) works to prevent mining injuries, illnesses and fatalities, and promote safe and healthful workplaces for all U.S. miners. The agency name and its mission statement make clear that protecting both miners' safety and health must be a priority.
Safety concerns: Inside India's mines, a worker dies every 10 days
Progressive improvements in the safety standard of India's coal mines notwithstanding, every ten days last year there was a mining fatality in the country. And every third day last year, on an average, there was a serious accident in the coal mining sector — making it arguably the most dangerous profession in India.
Coal mining trends, approaches, and safety hazards: a brief …
Coal is the vital source of energy in world and is a burnable brownish black or black sedimentary rock contemporary in the rock strata in form of layers; thickness of layers may vary. It is available in all over the world in large quantities and can be extracted to be utilized as energy-producing source to fulfill the energy demand. There are two modes of …
Coal mining trends, approaches, and safety hazards: a brief …
Miners face numerous problems in the process of underground coal extraction such as high temperature, humidity, coal and silica dusts, harmful gases, the …
Safety and health in coal mines
92-2-105339-3 [ISBN] Download: pdf - 1.6 . This code of practice has been prepared to help those responsible for improving safety and health standards and to provide guidelines for the drafting of safety and health regulations for the coalmining industry. It contains provisions on general safety and health measures, specific measures for work ...
(PDF) Environment, Health, and Safety in Mining: Where We …
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