Accident analysis of two Turkish underground coal mines

Sarı, Mehmet; Düzgün, Şebnem; Karpuz, Celal; Selcuk, A. Sevtap

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2003.11.002

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“…In recent years, mining-related accidents have accounted for a significant proportion of all industrial accidents. Studies show that the main cause is unsafe working practices [2]. Employees with a good safety attitude will reduce these unsafe behaviors, thus avoiding preventable accidents without the need for supervision [3].…”

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Development and Validation of a Safety Attitude Scale for Coal Miners in China

Yin

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Safety attitude is of vital importance to accident prevention, and the high accident rate in the coal mining industry makes it urgent to undertake research on coal miners' safety attitude. However, the current literature still lacks a valid and reliable safety attitude measurement scale for coal miners, which stands as a barrier against their safety attitude improvement. In this study, a scale is developed that can be used to measure coal miners' safety attitude. The preliminary scale was based on an extended literature review. Empirical data were then collected from 725 coal miners using the preliminary scale. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were undertaken to validate and improve the scale. The final scale, which consists of 17 items, contains four dimensions: management safety commitment, team safety climate, fatalism and work pressure. Results show that this safety attitude scale can effectively measure the safety attitude of coal miners, showing high psychological measurement validity. This paper contributes to the occupational safety research by developing the factor structure and indicator system of coal miners' safety attitude, thus providing more profound interpretation of this crucial construct in the safety research domain. The measurement scale serves as an important tool for safety attitude benchmarking among different coal mining enterprises and, thus, can boost the overall safety improvement of the whole industry. These findings can facilitate improvement of both theories and practices related to occupational safety attitude.

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Development and Validation of a Safety Attitude Scale for Coal Miners in China

Yin

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…The studies conducted on the occurrence of injures in underground coal mines have identified a number of variables affecting mine accidents. Based on the published literature 1,4,[11][12][13][14] and the accident records, the variables chosen in this study were divided into the four main groups such as mine, miners' age, occupation, and accident type.…”

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Evaluation of Occupational Fatalities among Underground Coal Mine Workers through Hierarchical Loglinear Models

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2010

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Despite the all precautions, underground coal mining is one of the dangerous industries owing to fatal occupational accidents. Accidents are complicated events to which many factors effect on their formation and preventing them is only possible by the analyses of the accident occurred in past and by straight evaluation of the obtained results. In this study, hierarchical loglinear analysis method was implemented to occupational fatalities occurred in the period of 1980-2004 in the five underground coal mines of Turkish Hardcoal Enterprises which has the most important coal production areas in Turkey. The accident records were evaluated and the main factors affecting the accidents were defined as mine, miners' age, occupation, and accident type. By taking into account the sub factors of the main factors, multi way contingency tables were prepared and thus, the probabilities might effect fatality accidents were investigated. At the end of this study, it was found that the mostly affected job group by the fatality accidents was the production workers and additionally, these workers were mostly exposed to roof collapses and methane explosions. Moreover, important accident risk factors and the occupational job groups which have high probability to be exposed to these risk factors were determined and important information about decreasing the accidents in the underground coal mines were presented.

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“…Coal mining operation caused many problems such as ground settlement, shaft lining instability, surrounding strata deformation, aquifer leakage, rock burst, and water inrush [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Among them, serious shaft lining failures have often occurred in the eastern part of China, such as Datun, Xuzhou, Huaibei, Huainan, Yanzhou, and Yongxia, since 1987 [10].…”

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Vertical Shaft Support Improvement Studies by Strata Grouting at Aquifer Zone

Yin

et al. 2018

Advances in Civil Engineering

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e shaft lining failure which occurs in deep alluvium is a sudden coal mine hazard. e strata grouting is one of the treatment methods for the shaft lining failure. To investigate the impact of grout injection pressure on the shaft lining, the field measurement and the numerical analysis of the shaft lining stress variation during the grouting were conducted. To improve the strata grouting, the underground continuous impervious curtain (UCIC) is proposed as a new method by using the chain conveyor cutter technique without the impact on the shaft lining. e effects of the new method were also analyzed by means of the numerical methods. e results show that the strata grouting in the deep alluvium needs a high injection pressure, and in the horizontal direction, the shaft lining sustains the repeat tensile and compressive force during the grouting process. e negative influence of strata grouting on the stability of the shaft lining is obvious and serious. e UCIC built around the shaft lining can restrain the stress concentration induced by the aquifer drawdown. e triangular UCIC has a similar effect as that of the vertical one, and the small angle is better for preventing the shaft lining failure.

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Accident analysis of two Turkish underground coal mines

Cited by 93 publications

References 7 publications

Development and Validation of a Safety Attitude Scale for Coal Miners in China

Development and Validation of a Safety Attitude Scale for Coal Miners in China

Evaluation of Occupational Fatalities among Underground Coal Mine Workers through Hierarchical Loglinear Models

Vertical Shaft Support Improvement Studies by Strata Grouting at Aquifer Zone

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