Hazards of Coal Stockpiling Operations

Mine Safety and Health Administration
Hazards of Coal Stockpiling Operations
DVD501 - 1994
This video shows what happens when miners or equipment operators are working on a surge pile and the material unexpectedly collapses, breaks loose, or starts to flow underneath them. The disastrous result of being engulfed in loose material -- suffocation -- is demonstrated by a working model of a surge pile. The model shows how stockpiles with drawholes and feeders work, what takes place within the piles, the properties of flowing materials, and how hazardous conditions can develop at surge piles. Included are action scenes of heavy mobile equipment being used around stockpiles. The video emphasizes recognizing stockpile hazards and preventing stockpile accidents.

[@piehamcake1]

Glad I watched this I just started my coal stockpiling operation last week I will implement these recommendations

[@rodshoaf]

@@jamesweir139 IKR... I just started too.. I need to look out for these dangers!

[@ravinraven6913]

its pretty sad that you didn't know about this stuff before stockpiling, your ignorance can get someone killed. You shouldn't be anywhere near a stockpile operation with your lack of intelligence and training my god man.....how pathetic does someone need to be to be in an industry and have no experience? Reduce risk of killing people, get out now before you kill someone

[@t-yoonit]

Best of luck sir! May your operation be a great success!

[@madjack1748]

Felt like I stepped into a 1970's grocery store when the video started.

[@felipecardoza9967]

Play that funky Muzak

[@gliderydin2911]

Sadly this is probably the video they still show new guys. I know all the videos I've had to watch for work over the last decade were older then dirt

[@copescale9599]

Don't know why this was shot on Tape in the 90's lol with music made on some random casio.

[@stevenlmendeziialphaone3975]

I bet the composer was totally felling it

[@toddr.4630]

Could almost smell the A&P 😝✌️

[@kishascape]

Jesus seeing those old Conrail logos still looking fresh. Like a different world.

[@mengxiangxuan6552]

respect for the brave toys who volunteered for this video

[@ravinraven6913]

Toy story isn't real? can I assume that was auto correct and you meant to say boys?

[@notthecia4486]

A must see for coal stockpiling fans

[@vernacular1483]

The hole is the only natural enemy of the pile

[@comajoebuck999]

And vise versa….

[@mandrillsass5687]

Lmao what

[@comajoebuck999]

@@mandrillsass5687 piles=hemorrhoids

[@davidhead5943]

Cool video

[@charlesbonkley]

Edge of your pile excitement!

[@MayorFuglycools]

Electronic NES version of shakin hands with danger song Mayor Fuglycool

[@donalfinn4205]

This was fierce interesting.☘️👍

[@megataurus7779]

It is,ya bog hopper! 😂

[@michaelwells5617]

Every year on newyears i used to survey all the stockpiles for the mines we worked for. Walking all around feeders and dropping a 200' tape to measure silos . Dozer guys usually walked the stockpiles in good for us

[@martinswiney2192]

Beware the draw hole.

[@ravethecity]

Thank You, KZbin algorithm

[@mandrillsass5687]

I guess youtube wants me to learn about stockpiling coal safely

[@05AWAG]

wouldnt some sort of simple radar set up help spot voids? if we can find a fish it seems like we could find something that will swallow a dozer

[@bigorsetomatoesauce6403]

05AWAG well there may have not been a rader of any sort back then

[@josephastier7421]

The GPS on your cell phone would work just fine.

[@mfbfreak]

@@josephastier7421 GPS signals don't penetrate a thick layer of coal or soil.

[@josephastier7421]

@@mfbfreak The voids are at the intakes to the conveyor systems. Those are at known locations. Some of these dozer operators get in trouble because the intake gets covered and they lose track of where it is, and drive over it. A cell phone GPS could easily let them know where the intakes are.

[@julianixon416]

Radar has been around in a usable state since the 1940s, but it may not be so easy/cheap to use in this kind of equipment. It’s cheaper to make safety videos and use cheap methods of warning than to actually value employee safety if you’re a mining operation.

[@zachmiller9175]

This is a great reminder of how "clean coal" is neither a new concept nor "clean" as most people understand the word, it's just processed.

[@Someguy6571]

I believe the concept of "clean coal" is the process of capturing the gasses that are released by burning it.

[@mirandabri834]

This looks like KRT terminal, anyone know?

[@donalfinn4205]

What was the music at the start please?

[@Katalci]

What is that bop of an intro song?

[@1738Creations]

I listen for the screams of people trapped in the feeders and use them as a guide for where I should drive.

[@TheHannible]

Wow! That was fun.

[@jamesdavis5096]

Shake hands with danger

[@ryancadwallader9933]

Is that emerald ?

[@billmadison2032]

At 804, his mind is thinking. .... words words something something words words numbers numbers something something words maybe some important words

[@mikeadler434]

👍👍

[@Mjg503]

I have two words for you all. Learn to code.

[@MrASSKIKR]

Cheesy 8 bit sound effects

[@Chief176]

D8K

[@captainnutzlos3816]

Thanks to the green shit this wont be a threath anymore 😄

[@ShainAndrews]

Dey terk yer jerb.

[@wayneakins3644]

No hazard

[@bangaloremusic]

Narration by: Mr Emphysema

[@mjmcnult]

My wife and I use this video to help us drift off to sleep at night.

[@coloradostrong]

I'm here to watch the R/C bulldozer and plastic guy get buried. They could have set the miniature coal pile on fire too, for added drama. And then have a R/C firetruck come out. 😅 😂

[@marcnews75]

i'll sleep better tonight knowing this info .I watch some shit me

[@wayneg8763]

I was more concerned about spontaneous combustion. Had a couple of fires, in a stock pile you can open it up but in the pit we had one burn for over a year until we cut round a hill with scrapers and broke it open

[@lockdown727]

Wow

[@seanriopel3132]

Look at the underground fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania I believe. The town used to burn their trash which accidentally ignited an underground coal mine. It has been burning ever since almost 50 years* and counting. Entire town had to be abandoned.

[@richardhaselwood9478]

I know one mine in Australia that has to design its stockpiles specially to prevent spon com.

[@wayneg8763]

@@seanriopel3132 yep, the underground mine here back in the 90s was on fire, they sealed up some of the drifts, they were bringing in a semi truck load of liquid nitrogen every 3 days and injecting it into the drifts until one morning, the gas levels were to high so they sent everyone home and later boom.

[@AKUJIVALDO]

@@seanriopel3132 50 decades? LOL

[@jamesbenedict7206]

Operator should always carry an extra set of underware!

[@middleclassthrash]

What am I doing with my life?

[@oddballfactor4307]

14 years later KZbin is like, hey, anyone want to watch this? *algorithm changes*

[@thanchon1]

Precisely how I got here……

[@t-yoonit]

They fucked with it again. March 2023.

[@davidhead5943]

Yeah but how many companies actually follow their rules and safety of their employees ? If that's the case we wouldn't have lost a lot of minors if the companies have followed the rules and safety !

[@coloradostrong]

How many _minors_ were lost? At Kindercare? Or did you mean _miners,_ instead?

[@davidhead5943]

Yes what you said ! I'm sorry

[@jeffbybee5207]

There was an accident in Eastern Utah and my friend told a woman friend that 17 miners were lost . She was horrified and asked who let children into mines

[@thesteelrodent1796]

@@coloradostrong lots of minors were lost to the coal mines, before the 19th century

[@ShainAndrews]

Most do pretty good... until you step into WV. Eat shit Bob.

[@piatpotatopeon8305]

Dang that opening... It makes me think of Animal Crossing. Now I want to begin modernizing the mining industry on my island.

[@peter_smyth]

I never knew feeders and drawpoints existed for taking coal from a stockpile. I wondered how they got the coal out efficiently without scooping it up into a conveyor or hopper.

[@gaghetakias]

+1 αν είστε εδώ από τον Κοντογιάννη!

[@vaskat625]

Ποιος είσαι;

[@gaghetakias]

@@vaskat625 της μανς το μνι

[@bud7707]

4:33 there gonna show that on KZbin poor guy if only he knew not to stand there in the center of the cone

[@coloradostrong]

_They''re_ gonna show, not "there".

[@WalkinTall]

@@coloradostrong They’re, not, “They”re.”

[@kc4cvh]

You have a surge pile and you take away one lump of coal. Is it still a surge pile?

[@chunkydumper6156]

Coal knows where it is because it knows where it isn't.

[@HoursFreeAOLsp]

That music tho...

[@Joelontugs]

Vintage d10 and d9s 😍

[@tr1ppyh1ppy]

Gonna lay in a surge pile

[@t-yoonit]

This is basically grain bin safety 101 but outside and the corn is black and combustible.

[@MrPither999]

Someone got a Casio starter keyboard for Christmas.

[@noelwarner1235]

Conrail! Cool

[@Fadem12forReal]

Music is strong

[@supertramp6011]

No mention of fire hazards? Would have thought this could be a very serious issue, with hot equipment working on top of coal, possibly emitting dust particles or gases which are extremely combustible.

[@lucasaccount573]

Too much wind, dampness and other factors prevent it.

[@GilmerJohn]

@@lucasaccount573 --Indeed. It takes some effort to start a coal fire.

[@jessiperry60]

zelda music

[@dirtydiesels3110]

All this is good to kno. I'm opening g up my electric car fueling station tomorrow

[@phuturephunk]

The opening music made me feel like I was watching the intro to a steampunk JRPG.

[@richardsmuin7665]

I worked in a open pit coal mine for 36 years and never heard any thing like this happening any where in the coal mining world!!

[@thesteelrodent1796]

there was a rather bad (and documented on video) incident where a guy and his dozer got eaten by one of those drawpoints, which is why these exact safety regulations were implemented, and why breathing apparatus became required. The video of that incident should be on youtube, but cannot recall what it's called

[@Godzilla-sp9ew]

I mean, there is this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHzIm3WIirmIoKM

[@ShainAndrews]

So because you don't know of any instances... it never happened?

[@AKUJIVALDO]

@@ShainAndrews exactly. Just like government/MSM/companies lying...if you haven't caught on the lie, they told the truth LOL

[@thedoctor2102]

01:02 ., what’s going on with those wheels on the locomotive…?

[@Hugh1966]

Even in this modern era they are flirting with death . Peril at the ready

[@davidfirth9342]

I have a idea put the belt over the hole 🕳

[@mmmmmmmmmm.m.]

That into tho fire 🔥

[@salvagedb2470]

Wow the thought of being in a Dozer being drawn into the Drawhole does not bear thinking about, but an interesting vid .