KEY FACTS AND FIGURES: MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY …
• Only 1 FOG fatal accident was reported due to seismicity in 2022 • Coal, Platinum and Chrome underground mines, each reported only 1 FOG related fatality throughout the year 2022. • reduction in machinery related fatalities, no fatalities were reported in 2022 under this category versus the three (3) fatalities in 2021.
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A statistical analysis of coal mine accidents caused by coal …
According to the statistics, coal dust explosion accidents account for about 9% of all kinds of dust explosion accidents in the world every year, and the proportion reaches up to 35% in China (Lu ...
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Modelling and analysis of unsafe acts in coal mine gas explosion …
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 …
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Research on the Causes of Gas Explosion Accidents Based …
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 …
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Statistical analysis of methane explosions in Turkey's underground coal
Methane explosion in underground coal mine is one of the most deadly hazards to the miners and the surrounding environment ... various factors affecting safety problems related to gas accidents and errors in safety rules in Turkey's underground coal mines. Causes of fatal gas accidents have been diagnosed in the final part of the study. …
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Root causes of coal mine accidents: Characteristics of safety culture
Coal mining causes many severe problems for both coal mine workers and the surrounding environments (Shi et al., 2017; ... A process mining approach to improve emergency rescue processes of fatal gas explosion accidents in Chinese coal mines. Saf. Sci., 111 (2019), pp. 154-166, 10.1016/j.ssci.2018.07.006.
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An analysis of gas accidents in Chinese coal mines, 2009 – …
In addition, coal mine gas accidents are divided into three categories: gas explosion, coal and gas outburst, and gas suffocation. Fig. 3 shows the percentage of fatalities and frequency per category from 2009 to 2019 in China. Download : Download high-res image (172KB) Download : Download full-size image; Fig. 3.
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Fatal gas explosion accidents on Chinese coal mines and …
The severity of major gas explosion accidents is significant compared to that of other types of coal mine accidents. This study focuses on study of unsafe behaviors of front-line miners. • The analysis results show that unsafe behaviors existed in and had precipitated influence to all gas explosion accidents, and clearly analyze the specific …
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Mine Explosions
Frictional ignition frequency in US coal mines is on the decline, but it still is a cause of concern because it has a potential to cause a mine explosion leading to a large-scale mine fire. Prevention of frictional ignition is based on the following: 1. Coal seam degasification to reduce original gas content of the coal seam by 50–80%.
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A process mining approach to improve emergency rescue
In this study, we apply the technique of process mining to domain of gas explosion accident emergency rescue in coal mines. 50 considerable and major gas explosion accidents, which occurred from ...
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July 31, 2019 Fatality
Underground Coal Mine. Fatal Explosion Methane Gas July 31, 2019. Paradise #9 Mine KenAmerican Resources, LLC Bremen, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky ID No. 15-17741. Accident Investigators. ... The explosions caused large metal beams and Q-decking to be blown away from the shaft. The area on the surface near the shaft was …
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Risk Assessment of Coal Dust Explosions in Coal Mines …
Methane was the only gas implicated in the fatal explosions that occurred in the gaseous underground coal mines. ... The study evaluated the overall coal dust explosion risk by taking into account 25 potential root causes in coal mines. The fuzzy idea has been given the authority to help create a fuzzy score from the linguistic information ...
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Coal mine explosions in India: Management failure
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 …
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(PDF) Explosions in Underground Coal Mines
Explosions are one of the most significant causes of death in the coal mining industry (Cheng 2018) and Ray et al., 2022), and as of 2006, 89.52% of the fatalities caused by explosions occurred in ...
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Modelling and analysis of unsafe acts in coal mine gas explosion …
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
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Coal mine explosions in India: Management failure, safety …
6. Summary and conclusion It is imperative to determine the root causes of every mine accident to minimize the chances of repeated disasters in the future. This paper critically analyzed mine explosion data at Indian coal mines covering the period 1900-2020.
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MSHA
On April 5, 2010, at approximately 3:02 p.m., a massive coal dust explosion occurred at the Upper Big Branch Mine-South (UBB), killing 29 miners and injuring two. UBB is operated by Performance Coal Company (PCC), a former subsidiary of Massey Energy Company (Massey) (together PCC/Massey), and is located in Montcoal, West ia.
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Research on the Causes of Gas Explosion Accidents …
The randomness of gas explosion accidents is intensified owing to naked fires, coal spontaneous combustion, electric sparks, metal surface impacts, or friction …
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Risk Assessment of the Unsafe Behaviours of Humans in Fatal …
A fatal gas explosion of Babao coal mine (Jilin Province, China) caused 36 deaths on March 29, 2013 and the ignition source of the accident was attributed to CSC in the mined-out area known as the ...
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Mine Accidents and Disasters | Department of Mineral …
A miner relighting his lamp while checking for methane gas, ignited the methane gas and caused a massive explosion. 53 Deaths due to a mining accident were reported on 13 May 1993 at the Middelbult Colliery near Secunda, Mpumalanga. A major coal-dust explosion was caused by a small volume of methane gas that came into contact with a …
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Accident case-driven study on the causal modeling and …
The Soma Mine Disaster (SMD), which occurred due to a fire in the underground coal mine and caused 301 fatalities in 2014, is one of the largest mine disasters in the last few decades.
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In W.Va., Blast Leads to Worst U.S. Mining Disaster in Decades
Updated 3:14 a.m. ET Tuesday | At least 25 coal miners were killed and more remained missing after an explosion Monday afternoon at an underground coal mine in southern West ia, according to ...
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A process mining approach to improve emergency rescue processes of
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 …
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Analysis of characteristics and causes of gas explosion …
Coal is an important fossil fuel energy that occupies a high position in the energy use of China and even the world. However, gas explosions are still the deadliest coal mine accident in China ...
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Cause Analysis of Coal Mine Gas Explosion Based on …
The results show that the main causes of mine gas explosion are gas accumulation and fire source explosion. The main causes of gas accumulation are no wind or breeze caused by local ventilator problems. …
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Causes of Coal Mine Accidents in the World and Turkey
The most common causes of accidents in coal mining are firedamp and dust explosions, landslips, mine fires, and technical failures related to transport and mechanization. ... In the presence of methane at the rate of 4%–15% in the mine's atmosphere, explosion occurs and then the temperature in the environment increases …
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Analysis of characteristics and causes of gas explosion …
The study analyzed the accident characteristics and causes of SESGEAs. As an example, we conducted a specialized case analysis using the 24Model (fourth edition) on the recent Baoma coal mine gas explosion. Results. SESGEA data are characterized by greater volatility, with significant differences in the geographical …
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Mining Employees Safety and the Application of Information …
The main causes of fatalities in coal mining were mine collapse and blast, accumulation of gas, gas explosion, and falling stones: Liu et al. (China) Case study: Case analysis: Hazards in the mining process of coal: rock stresses, harmful gases, humidity, high temperatures, coal and silica dust, and specialized equipment. Tripathy and Ala …
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West ia Coal Mine Disasters – Legends of America
The Eccles mine disaster was an explosion of coal-seam methane on April 28, 1914, in Eccles, West ia. The explosion took the lives of at least 180 men and boys. The second worst mine explosion in the state occurred on April 28, 1914, at the New River Collieries Company's Number 5 mine in Eccles, West ia.
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An analysis of fatal gas accidents in Chinese coal mines
Yan Gao G. Fu A. Nieto. Environmental Science, Engineering. 2016. 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 …
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