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The Hiki Tiki Mine

The Hiki Tiki Mine. The Basic Mine Layout. Ventilation/ Beltways/ Escapes. SCSRs / Rescue Chambers / Supplemental Sampling. Mine Detection Equipment. Monoxide Detectors and Fire Suppression up and down beltlines Hardwired to surface to trip alarms Mine Tracking System Wireless

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The Hiki Tiki Mine

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  1. The Hiki Tiki Mine

  2. The Basic Mine Layout

  3. Ventilation/ Beltways/ Escapes

  4. SCSRs / Rescue Chambers / Supplemental Sampling

  5. Mine Detection Equipment • Monoxide Detectors and Fire Suppression up and down beltlines • Hardwired to surface to trip alarms • Mine Tracking System • Wireless • Uses relay stations to send miner positions to surface • Also capable of text messaging • Traditional Hardwire telephones to underground • Hardwired connections to surface on conveyor operations

  6. More Detection Equipment • Intakes and Faces Monitored with wireless realtime 3 gas sensors • Blue dots are locations of tubes that feed to surface and can be physically sampled • They are for emergency – not primary monitoring

  7. Service In the Area • Rescue Teams • Mine has 2 rescue teams of its own • 1 hour away – the Miki Tiki Mine Rescue Team • 2.5 hours away Wild Turkey Mine Rescue Team • Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals • 1.5 hours away • Equipped with siesmic sensor aray • 5 hours away – mine rescue drill and hoist • MSHA • 2.5 hours away – field office with advisory personnel and inspectors • 10 hours away – mobile gas monitoring and command post

  8. Other Services • Local Hospital 30 minutes • Ambulance 30 minutes • Gas Sampling and Analysis Labs – 3 hours away (can send samples for analysis) • Martin Water wells • Well drills up to 2.5 ft in diameter • 2 hours • Foam and nitrogen and water flooding equipment • 5 hours away

  9. Incident at 5:30 PM – Day 1 • It is 5:30 in the evening at the Hiki Tiki Mine. The first 10 hour shift of the day will end at 6:00 and the hot seat change out crews are on the man trips on the way to the two mine sections. (The one going to section 2 was late entering the mine and will be late getting to the section). • There is a loud popping sound and rumble, followed by a wave of dust out of the mine portal. • Alarms in the control room start going off. The belts have shut-down. The mine fan sensors report a shock wave but the fan is still running.

  10. The Incident • The tracking and gas composition network beyond 6,000 ft in appears to have lost relay stations, but still may have power and the network will try to reroute • A bunch of breakers have flipped but some things may still have power (breakers still on) • The phones are offline • A lot of people are looking on in horror • One of your mine rescue team members appears to be checking equipment and trying to round-up people.

  11. Pick the First 5 Things You Would Do. • Have your security people send people back into the buildings and post a guard at the mine entrance. ____ • Call MSHA ____ • Call the Rescue Station at the State Department of Mines and Minerals (The have stare rescue equipment) ____ • Shut Down the Mine Fan _____ • Instruct your electrical and computer people to try to get the sensors and tracking network back on-line ____ • Shut down power to the sensor and tracking network ____ • Have Your Foreman and Supervisors begin counting the people on the job and finding which ones are members of your mine rescue or firefighting teams ____ • Have the control room get you the names of people underground and their last known position ____ • Send Everyone Home _____ • Send a team of 3 people over to monitor the emergency shaft and to use the rescue hoist to pull people out if anyone shows up _____ • Shut Down anything on main underground breaker (may not be everything) ___ • Have Your Foreman and Supervisors send home everyone not trained or likely to be of service for mine rescue and fire fighting operations ____ • Have Your Foremen and Supervisors identify people on scene and then send home everyone that is not on a mine rescue team or fire fighting team or that does not volunteer for service _____ • Call the Home Office _____ • Call the 2 Closest Miner Rescue teams _____ • Begin calling all members of your rescue and fire fighting teams on other shifts ____ • Shut down every other mine circuit going into the mine that has not been named somewhere else. _____ • Call your Mother and Say Your Scared ____ • Call an Ambulance _____ • Call Drilling crews to begin drilling air holes to reach the mine rescue chambers or other points of interest ____ • Call CNN and have them send a crew to interview you _____ • Tell everyone onsite to call home and tell their families they are ok _____ • Have your people start setting up rooms for family members and a separate room for the press _____

  12. 5:45 PM Day 1 – Accident + 15 minutes • A Man trip emerges from the decline with all miners ok. It is mantrip #2 that was headed for the northwest panel. None of them are wearing self rescuers or report seeing smoke but they say they believe from a loud rush of air that there has been an explosion. • If you chose an accounting of people underground you have the list now. If you did not you don’t have a list. • The leader of mine rescue team 1 has jury rigged a team of 7 people (5 untrained) that want to go in. They have air flow meters and gas meters

  13. Name 3 More Things You Would Do • Have your security people send people back into the buildings and post a guard at the mine entrance. ____ • Call MSHA ____ • Call the Rescue Station at the State Department of Mines and Minerals (The have stare rescue equipment) ____ • Shut Down the Mine Fan _____ • Instruct your electrical and computer people to try to get the sensors and tracking network back on-line ____ • Shut down power to the sensor and tracking network ____ • Begin calling all members of your mines own rescue teams ____ • Have the control room get you the names of people underground and their last known position ____ • Send Everyone Home _____ • Send a team of 3 people over to monitor the emergency shaft and to use the rescue hoist to pull people out if anyone shows up _____ • Shut Down anything on main underground breaker (may not be everything) ___ • Have Your Foreman and Supervisors send home everyone not trained or likely to be of service for mine rescue and fire fighting operations ____ • Have Your Foremen and Supervisors identify people on scene and then send home everyone that is not on a mine rescue team or fire fighting team or that does not volunteer for service _____ • Call the Home Office _____ • Call the 2 Closest Miner Rescue teams _____ • Shut down every other mine circuit going into the mine that has not been named somewhere else. _____ • Call your Mother and Say Your Scared ____ • Call an Ambulance _____ • Call Drilling crews to begin drilling air holes to reach the mine rescue chambers or other points of interest ____ • Call CNN and have them send a crew to interview you _____ • Tell everyone onsite to call home and tell their families they are ok _____ • Have your people start setting up rooms for family members and a separate room for the press _____ • Let the informal mine rescue team go in ____ • (Only if you got a list of people in the mine) Begin calling the families of those in the mine _____

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