Survey of Surface Mining AccidentsMobile Equipment

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Adkins, Glenn E., author.

Conference Name:

1980 SAE International Off-Highway and Powerplant Congress and Exposition (1980-09-08 : Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1980

Summary:

A survey of mobile mining equipment related accidents occurring in surface mining operations indicates that in 1978 there were 19,545 non-fatal injuries. Mobile equipment as defined in this paper was involved in 3,029 or 15.5% of these nonfatal injuries. Dumpers and front-end loaders were involved in 51.3% of these mobile equipment related injuries.For the nine-year average (197078), mobile equipment was involved in 46.3% of the fatalities occurring in surface mining-operations. Again dumpers and loaders were involved in over half or 63.7% of the mobile equipment related fatalities. The type accident occurring the most with mobile equipment was "rollover" (214) with 86 front-end loaders and 71 dumpers, which accounted for 73.4% of the equipment involved in this type accident

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Publisher Number:

800946

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