Human factors contributing to groundfall accidents in underground coal mines: workers' views. Information Circular/1987

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6392347

Peters, R H; Wiehagen, W J

This report presents findings from a Bureau of Mines study on barriers that may prevent miners from correcting and avoiding groundfall hazards. Such barriers stem from four basic types of problems: inability to recognize groundfall hazards; inability to correct groundfall hazards; lack of motivation to search for groundfall hazards; lack of motivation to correct groundfall hazards. The report also includes a summary of miners' responses concerning their recent experiences with groundfall accidents, along with industry-wide statistics on accidents and injuries caused by groundfalls in underground coal mines.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Pittsburgh Research Center
• OSTI ID: 6392347
• Report Number(s): PB-87-183828/XAB; BM-IC-9127
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Library of Congress catalog card No. 86-600355
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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