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January 23, 2015

New mining rule requires detectors to keep workers from being crushed by machines

  • The most common cause of the 40 deaths at all the nation's mines last year involved powered hauling and mining machinery.
    • By DYLAN LOVAN
    Associated Press

    PRINCETON, Ind. — A federal rule issued last week requires all U.S. mines to use sensors that can halt digging machines if miners get too close, a move aimed at preventing workers from being crushed to death.

    Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor Joe Main visited an underground coal mine last week in southern Indiana to see a demonstration of the safety technology, which is called a proximity detector. The detectors are already in use at the Alliance Resource Partners Gibson North mine that hosted Main's visit.


     
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