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IS COAL MINE OPERATION WITHOUT SAFETY POSSIBLE?
Abstract
Coal is an important energy resource in world. Coal mine exploitation with nonmechanized methods, need expert labors and with out them, mining process will be deranged so the labors and their safety is really important. In many industrial countries the accidents are the most important cause of person’s death. According to I.L.O (International Labor Organization) reports 120,000,000 accidents occur per year and 210,000 people die in these accidents. It means more than 500 people per day. In order to decreasing the injured persons and the cost of these accidents the cause of them should be recognized. Mine accidents still cause loss of lives and money in various coal mines. Tazare coal mine (Iran) is one the important coal resource in Iran which exploited by conventional and non-mechanized methods so mining accidents are unavoidable. In this study, historical accident records of Tazare underground coal mine from 2001 to 2006 are collected and statistically analyzed to determine the most important causes of mining accidents and to compare the results of the statistical data in these years. This comparison is carried out with considering to the accidents causes, results of the accidents, the parts of body which injured, the incident rate, severity measure and `frequency distribution. The comparison has shown that the most important cause of the accidents is the struck due to falling objects and the most injured parts of body have been the upper parts. Also, the study indicates that the incident rate, severity measure, frequency distribution are higher in 2006.
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