MSHA Team Meeting
09/19/2006
10:50 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
1:10 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Attendees:
Joseph Breighner
Allison Czapracki
LaTanger Gray
Rashmi Jain
Abigail Jones
Dr. Dabbagh – Faculty Advisor
Mike Rutledge – WV Office of Miners Healthy Safety and Training
Items Discussed:
Review of Check Roof and Ribs Module
- In establishing credibility of lesson prototypes, Miners use safety glasses, as opposed to safety goggles
Review of dividing Pre-Shift Examination into 5 areas
- Determine Areas to Check
- Roof and Ribs
- Visual Examination
- Sound and Vibrations Test
- Needs examples of performing task
- Supervisor places hand on roof/ribs, knocks roof/ribs with hammer to check for vibration. Listens for vibration.
- Need video of supervisor performing sound and vibration test.
- Need sound files of proper and improper sounds to come out of tests.
- Check for Loose Draw Rock
- Check for Bolt Spacing and Damaged Bolts (or Bolt Installation)
- Know roof control plan for your mine
- Existence of bolts
- Proper spacing and sequence
- Damage
- Check for Wet Areas
- Not a lot of content. Wet areas in roof and ribs require attention, may indicate impounded water or seepage
- Check for Loose/Cracked Ribs
- Ventilation
- Fire Hazards
- General Housekeeping (importance? Identification?)
- Call Out Results
Nuances in Training
Review of Emergency and Unusual Situations Duty
- Inundations: Mine is flooded with oxygen-deficient air, methane, water, or fire
- Update Part 1 of the Module so that supervisor has option of sending Miner 3 outside to warn others as well.
- Need: image of continuous miner underground.
Types of Accidents to Keep:
- Fires and Explosions
- Continuous Miner Fire
- Belt Fire Exercise
- Escape from a Mine Fire
- Severe Injury
- Is this section necessary?
- Roof Falls
- Roof fall entrapment
Get copy of image CD from Mike Rutledge
What are MSHA and specific state requirements for first aid/EMT training?
NIOSH/MSHA Invisible Ink exercises: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/products/
Video and photos are more effective than illustrations
Most common emergency situations:
- Roof and Rib falls
- Fire: equipment, belt fires (caused by friction or bad bearing)
- Belt entanglement
- Electrical accidents/electrocutions
- Haulage- movement of equipment (continuous miners, shuttle cars, scoops)
- Injuries include being run over, trapped against ribs
- Emergency escape from mine
Duty 12 Questions:
- How is the leadership role of the section boss defined by the industry?
- Companies want a young, intelligent, eager, able, go-getter who can motivate and communicate with workers on the section
- Cheerleader, head coach, daddy
- Industry preference would gear toward a more experience miner with less academic experience over a less experienced miner with a higher degree.
- Barriers to entry:
- Average section foreman works twice as hard as the average miner operator on the section
- More responsibility
- Communication skills
- Motivation: checking methane every 20 mins., wearing safety glasses, how do you get people to do this?
From Mr. Rutledge: copies of study guides from WVU, video scenes of accidents and general mining, CD of photos
Overlap in Pre-Shift, On-Shift, and Post-Shift duties
- Pre-shift and on-shift exams should be nearly identical checks of safety mandated by law
- End-shift duties are largely administrative
