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Mining Publication: Electric Shock Prevention

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Original creation date: October 1978

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Electric shocks are a serious problem in the mining environment. Because of extremely wide ranging use of electrically powered equipment in the mining industry, the hazard to personnel due to electrical shock and related injuries are not restricted to any single area but cover the entire spectrum of mining activity. Electrical accidents, resulting in personal injury, due to improper or complete lack of grounding of electrically operated mining machines, form a significant percentage of the overall electrical accident picture. The object of this paper is to describe methods of detection of unsafe electrical conditions with respect to the grounding of electrically operated mining equipment. It also includes a discussion of prototype instruments which effectively monitor the condition of the grounding safety devices currently in use on mining equipment and warn of dangerous conditions as soon as they appear. The paper is based on work accomplished under USBM Contract Number 50357115. The contract was initiated under the Pittsburgh Mining and Safety Research Center Program. It was administered under the technical direction of PM and SRC with Mr. Roger L. King as the Technical Project Officer. Mr. Daniel B. Dawkins was the Contract Administrator for the Bureau of Mines.

Authors: JL Bennett, GR Sima, RL King

Conference Paper - October 1978

NIOSHTIC2 Number: 20032396

Proceedings of the Fourth WVU Conference on Coal Mine Electrotechnology, Morgantown WV, Aug 2-4, 1978. Morgantown WV: University of West Virginia, 1978 Aug; :7-1 - 7-11


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