mine safety
61Consol Energy Mine Map Preservation Project — Location University of Pittsburgh Key people Amy E. Baker Conservator Area served Southwestern Pennsylvania Focus mine map preservation, digitization and archiving Website …
62Aracoma Alma Mine accident — The Aracoma Alma Mine accident occurred when a conveyor belt in the Aracoma Alma Mine No. 1 at Melville in Logan County, West Virginia caught fire. The conveyor belt ignited on the morning of January 19, 2006, pouring smoke through the gaps in… …
63Health and safety law — is a body of law that protects the health, safety and welfare of the general public and certain defined sectors of the population such as employees. Most jurisdictions have a framework of health and safety law which will usually be enforced by… …
64Swiss Foundation for Mine Action — The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) is a Swiss non governmental organisation based in Geneva. ( FSD stands for Fondation suisse de déminage, the french name of the organisation). FSD is politically, ideologically and religiously… …
65Darby Mine No. 1 disaster — The Darby Mine No. 1 disaster in Harlan County, Kentucky, USA, on May 20, 2006 killed five miners and left one survivor.[1] Cause of the Explosion Methane build up behind Omega Blocks As reported in a May 23, 2006 story in The Courier Journal,[2] …
66Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration — The Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration, United States Department of the Interior, (MESA), was the predecessor organization to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, prior to March 9, 1978. [1] Through an administrative action in… …
67Westray Mine — The Westray Mine was a coal mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, which was the site of a methane explosion in 1992 that killed 26 miners.BackgroundFollowing the closure of the last working mine in the 1970s, Pictou County s hopes for a mining… …
68Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster — The Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster was caused by a methane explosion that occurred on March 19, 2007 in the Ulyanovskaya longwall coal mine in the Kemerovo Oblast. At least 108 ru icon cite news|title= Mourning day: 108 casualties and new… …
69LPZ mine — 1. Top cover 2. Bottom cover 3. Explosive charge 4. Three cover retaining bolts 5. Detonator 6. Metal detonator retaining collar 7. Flash chamber 8. Safety screw 9. Igniter tube 10. Flame tube 11. Igniter retaining bolt 12. Percussion cap 13.… …
70Raspadskaya mine explosion — The Raspadskaya mine explosion was a mine explosion in the Raspadskaya mine, located near Mezhdurechensk in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, which occurred on 8 May 2010. It was believed to have been caused by a build up of methane. The initial explosion …
