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Pennsylvania Bureau of Deep Mine Safety

Pennsylvania Bureau of Deep Mine Safety. Provide Mine safety inspections, Miner certifications Safety Training and Mine Rescue services for miners within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . Commonwealth Locations.

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Pennsylvania Bureau of Deep Mine Safety

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  1. Pennsylvania Bureau of Deep Mine Safety Provide Mine safety inspections, Miner certifications Safety Training and Mine Rescue services for miners within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

  2. Commonwealth Locations • Uniontown – Main Office/Bituminous Rescue Station • Ebensburg – Bituminous Mine Rescue Station • Tremont – Anthracite Mine Rescue Station • Pottsville – Anthracite Main Office

  3. Underground Mine Safety • Bituminous Coal • Anthracite Coal • Industrial Minerals

  4. Accidents in Mining • All Mining in the U. S. 67 Miners died in 2002 • In Pennsylvania 3 Miners died mining coal in 2002 • In 2003 To this date in Pennsylvania. 0 miners have died

  5. Pennsylvania Mining History • Anthracite • Bituminous • Stone/Clay

  6. How Mining Touches Our Lives • Mineral Mining – Roads, concrete, decorative stones, soda ash, salt, sulfur • Coal Mining – Electricity, steel, Home heat, nylon • Mine Subsidence, Acid Mine Water • Mine site Reclamation

  7. Mining MethodsUnderground - Surface • Underground Coal – Room and Pillar and Long wall • Surface Coal – Remove the overburden, Extract coal by draglines, dozers, shovels, large haul trucks

  8. Pennsylvania Mine Rescue Quecreek Mine Rescue July 2002

  9. What Happened? • Miners cut into an adjacent abandon coal mine. • 60 Million gallons of water inundated their mine. • 18 miners were working in the mine when the water rushed in. • 9 miners made it to the surface • 9 other miners were trapped

  10. By 9:45PM, Water Reported at this Location - 1 Left Miners Cannot get Out and Reportedly Travel Back to Section

  11. The Rescue • For 78 hours the trapped miners waited for rescuers to free them. • Drillers drilled a 6 inch borehole in to the area that the miners were in 11 hours after they were trapped. • The miners tapped on the drill steel to let the rescuers know they were alive. • A 30 inch bore hole was started about 20 feet from the 6 inch hole to be used as an escape shaft.

  12. Water must be pumped out • Drill holes are drilled to place pumps into the mine to pump the water out. • 30,000 gallons per min. was being pumped. • When water started flowing out of the mine opening things looked bad. • Many people all across the country responded with help.

  13. The Rescue Bore Hole • At 10:16 PM on Saturday evening the hole breaks through to the miners. • All 9 are alive! • Escape capsule is lowered into the mine. • One by one each miner is brought to safety.

  14. Thank You John Cool Larry Stowinsky

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