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Mine Rescue and Survival Interim Report (1969) / Chapter Skim
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Survival Subsystem
Pages 3-5

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... This compares very favorably with the price of the improved model of the self-rescuer that provides substantially less protection at a slightly lower cost. Refuge Chambers When unable to escape following an explosion or fire, miners are trained to isolate themselves from poisonous gases by erecting barricades of wood, brattice cloth, and other materials.
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... This high fatality rate is not wholly attributed to poor barricading methods or lack of materials. Many coal companies have placed barricading kits at strategic locations in their mines.
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... Chlorate candles and high-pressure oxygen or air require carbon dioxide removal agents. Potential agents are lithium hydroxide, lithium peroxide, and baralyme (a mixture of calcium and barium hydroxide)
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Key Terms

  • life support
  • refuge chambers
  • dioxide removal
  • potassium superoxide
  • chlorate candles

  • hazard analysis
  • monoxide atmosphere
  • lithium peroxide
  • erecting barricades
  • percent carbon

  • removing carbon
  • require carbon
  • removes carbon
  • emergency life
  • contained life

  • refuge chamber
  • evolving oxygen
  • brattice cloth
  • underground workers
  • voice communication

  • entries leading
  • support equipment
  • slightly lower
  • mine explosion
  • ignition source

  • mining advanced
  • coal companies
  • simulation methods
  • respirable atmosphere
  • mining section


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