NIOSH Mining Training Exercise


Vulcan Mine Ignition

July 1987

See also: NIOSH mining products
Type: Invisible Ink Exercise
Audience: Underground coal
Length: 10 questions
Skills Reviewed: Ventilation, Choosing escape routes, Rescue of injured miners, First aid, Transportation of injured

You are the on-side shuttle car driver. Just after lunch, you pull across the last open crosscut, ready to go into #4 entry to load coal from the continuous miner. Just as you notice the line is down, an orange fireball covers up the continuous miner in the entry, the miner operator, his helper, and the foreman who was also in the entry. After the fireball dies down, through the white smoke in the entry you can see one miner down and the other two walking around by the continuous miner. You must decide what to do.

The companion invisible ink exercise "Vulcan Mine Recovery" continues the problem that is in this exercise. The two exercises may be used in sequence or independently.

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.

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Page last updated: September 17, 2008
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Division