NIOSH Mining Training Exercise


Unsupported Roof Rescue

July 1987

See also: NIOSH mining products
Type: Invisible Ink Exercise
Audience: Underground coal miners
Length: 10 questions
Skills Reviewed: Roof control, First aid, Freeing and transporting an injured miner

You are the pinner operator. Your helper, Marvin, goes under unsupported roof. As you yell to him to get back, there is a roof fall. It catches Marvin's legs. Marvin is lying face down and screaming. The roof is dribbling across the whole entry. You have to figure out how to rescue and help Marvin without getting yourself or other miners injured.

This exercise is similar to the "Highwall Rescue Exercise".

Materials needed:
Instructor Copy
Problem Booklet 1 for each trainee. May be downloaded separately or duplicated from the Instructor´s Copy.
Answer Sheet 1 for each group of 3 or 4 working the exercise. Purchased from MSHA (http://www.msha.gov/Education&Training.htm, MSHAdistributioncenter@dol.gov). You may also duplicate them locally if you or a local print shop have the ability to print invisible ink.
PENIB Developing Pens 1 for each answer sheet. Order from SICPA, Customer Service, 8000 Research Way, Springfield, VA 22153, Phone 1-888-SICPAUS or 1-888-742-7287, pen # "PENIB", a broad tipped developing pen.
Optional Overhead projector and overheads of the Master Answer Sheet and Scoring Key found in the Instructor's Copy.
Page last updated: September 17, 2008
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Division