From: MSHA
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Preventive Roof/Rib Outreach Program
PROP 2011 CHECK THE RIBS! |
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| Improvements in roof control technology have led to a significant reduction in roof fall fatalities. Despite these gains, roof and rib falls continue to be a leading cause of accidents and injuries in underground coal mines. This fact was driven home last year when six coal miners were killed and an additional 415 injured in accidents involving falls of roof or ribs.
Of the roof and rib fall fatalities that occurred in 2010, for the first time ever, more miners were killed in underground rib failures than in actual roof fall accidents. In addition to the fatalities, approximately 100 miners are injured by rib falls every year. MSHA’s Preventive Roof/Rib Outreach Program (PROP) is intended to increase awareness of the hazards that can lead to roof and rib fall accidents and injuries and the precautions necessary to prevent them. The 2011 PROP will focus on improved mine rib control. |
For more information, please see http://www.msha.gov/S&HINFO/PROP/PROPHOME.HTM
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