Monday, February 1, 2010

History of Mine Safety in USA

Found a video on YouTube about the history of mine safety in the USA.

It is more coal (or evaporite) focused, but has some great images and video clips, as well as being generally informative for any type of mining or underground construction.

With today's focus (and encouraging results) on "Zero Harm" it is good to see how far we have come.

The video discusses the impacts of closer supervision for safety and production, as well as the tradeoffs with mechanization, i.e. the equipment made some aspects safer, but equally required larger openings which gave stability issues.

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