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Nov HSA 2000
CONTENTS:
Stay Out - Stay Alive Facts
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Part 46 Training Assistance Available
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Making Unplanned Air Changes Is Like Looking Down The Barrel of a Loaded Gun
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Surge Pile Accident Prevention.
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Hypothermia (In Water/On Land)
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Wellness
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Safety First
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Electronic System for Filing Miner Training Plans Now Available
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Miners Lunch Bucket.
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First Mining Fatality
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Mining Our History
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The Holmes Safety Association Bulletin contains safety articles on a variety of subjects: fatal accident
abstracts, studies, posters, and other health and safety-related topics. This information is provided free
of charge and is designed to assist in presentations of groups of mine and plant workers during on-the-
job safety meetings. For more information visit the MSHA Home Page at www.msha.gov.
Please Note: The views and conclusions expressed in Bulletin articles are those of the authors and
should not be interpreted as representing official policy or, in the case of a product, represent
endorsement by the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Cover: Cover created by the AVMDB Graphics Section. If you have a potential cover photo, please
send an 8x10 print or digital image on disk at 300 dpi resolution to Donald Starr, Holmes Safety
Association Bulletin, National Mine Health and Safety Academy, 1301 Airport Road, Beaver, WV 25813-
9426.
Keep Us in Circulation--Pass Us Along December 2000
Stay Out - Stay Alive
Facts Purpose of the Stay Out - Stay Alive Program is to make children and adults aware of the
dangers found at active and abandoned mine sites through a public safety campaign. The Mine
Hazard Awareness Campaign is a partnership of federal, state, private organizations, and businesses.
Mining is an important part
active mine site, or the hiker,
and prone to collapse.
of the American economy
. Over off-roader, or rock hound
Hills of loose material in
half of the electricity generated
enjoying outdoor recreation, the stock or refuse piles can
in this country comes from
hazards are not always appar-
easily collapse to bury an
coal. Sand, gravel, limestone,
ent. Active and abandoned mine unsuspecting biker or climber.
and other rock products are
sites have proved to be an
Water-filled quarries
used in the construction
irresistibleand sometimes
and pits can hide rock ledges,
industry. Salt keeps wintry
deadlydraw for children and
old machinery, and other
roads free of ice. Gold, silver,
adults.
hazards. Because of the depth,
iron, copper, and many other
Vertical shafts can be
the water can be dangerously
minerals are essential to our
hundreds of feet deep. At the
cold; steep, slippery walls make
national prosperity.
surface, shafts can be com-
exiting these swimming holes
Mines are located in every
pletely unprotected, hidden by
very difficult.
state
from small sand and
vegetation, or covered by
In 1999, 17 people died
gravel operations to complex
rotting boards.
while seeking adventure on
underground coal, salt, lime-
Horizontal openings may mine property. The majority
stone, or metal mines, to
seem sturdy, but rotting timbers drowned in water-filled quarries
extensive surface mines that use and unstable rock formations
and pits; others died from all-
some of the largest industrial
make cave-ins a real danger.
terrain vehicle accidents, falls,
equipment ever built. There are Darkness and debris add to the and suffocation.
about 14,000 active and over
hazards.
Any community with active
500,000 abandoned mines in
Lethal concentrations of
or abandoned mines, quarries,
the Nation. As cities and towns
deadly gases (methane,
or pits could become the scene
spread into the surrounding
carbon monoxide, carbon
of the next tragedy. For more
countryside and more people
dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide)
information, please contact:
visit remote locations, the
can accumulate in underground Amy Louvier, U.S. Department
possibility of contact with an
passages.
of Labor, Mine Safety and
active or abandoned mine
Unused or misfired explo-
Health Administration, 703-235-
increases.
sives can become unstable and 1372, alouvier@msha.gov, or
There are dangers at both
deadlyvibrations from a touch
visit the MSHA web site:
active and abandoned mine
or footfall can trigger an
www.msha.gov.
sites
. The men and women who explosion.
MSHA has a toll free hotline
work at mine sites are trained
Excavated vertical cliffs
for reporting unsafe access to
to work in a safe manner. For
highwallsin open pit mines
active and abandoned mine
the unauthorized visitor on an
and quarries can be unstable
sites: 1-800-499-1038.
HOLMES SAFETY ASSOCIA
TION 3
December 2000
4 HOLMES SAFETY ASSOCIA
TION The following list of active and abandoned mine fatalities of non-
employees was compiled from varous reports and newspaper articles
from Jan1,2000 to October 31, 2000.
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I December 2000
HOLMES SAFETY ASSOCIA
TION Part 46 Training
Assis