Hazards of Coal Stockpiling Operations

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  • Опубліковано 4 лип 2008
  • 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.

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  • @piehamcake1
    @piehamcake1 Рік тому +88

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

    • @rodshoaf
      @rodshoaf Рік тому +2

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

    • @ravinraven6913
      @ravinraven6913 Рік тому

      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
      @t-yoonit Рік тому

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

  • @madjack1748
    @madjack1748 3 роки тому +146

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

    • @felipecardoza9967
      @felipecardoza9967 Рік тому +8

      Play that funky Muzak

    • @gliderydin2911
      @gliderydin2911 Рік тому +3

      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
      @copescale9599 Рік тому +1

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

    • @stevenlmendeziialphaone3975
      @stevenlmendeziialphaone3975 Рік тому +1

      I bet the composer was totally felling it

    • @toddr.4630
      @toddr.4630 Рік тому +1

      Could almost smell the A&P 😝✌️

  • @mengxiangxuan6552
    @mengxiangxuan6552 Рік тому +8

    respect for the brave toys who volunteered for this video

    • @ravinraven6913
      @ravinraven6913 Рік тому

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

  • @MayorFuglycools
    @MayorFuglycools 4 роки тому +41

    Electronic NES version of shakin hands with danger song
    Mayor Fuglycool

  • @notthecia4486
    @notthecia4486 Рік тому +12

    A must see for coal stockpiling fans

  • @kishascape
    @kishascape Рік тому +12

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

  • @vernacular1483
    @vernacular1483 3 роки тому +43

    The hole is the only natural enemy of the pile

  • @mjmcnult
    @mjmcnult Рік тому +16

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

  • @davidhead5943
    @davidhead5943 Рік тому +5

    Cool video

  • @marcnews75
    @marcnews75 11 років тому +13

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

  • @wayneg8763
    @wayneg8763 Рік тому +21

    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
      @lockdown727 Рік тому

      Wow

    • @seanriopel3132
      @seanriopel3132 Рік тому

      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
      @richardhaselwood9478 Рік тому

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

    • @wayneg8763
      @wayneg8763 Рік тому

      @@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
      @AKUJIVALDO Рік тому

      @@seanriopel3132 50 decades? LOL

  • @piatpotatopeon8305
    @piatpotatopeon8305 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @peter_smyth
    @peter_smyth Рік тому +13

    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.

  • @donalfinn4205
    @donalfinn4205 Рік тому +3

    This was fierce interesting.☘️👍

  • @jamesbenedict7206
    @jamesbenedict7206 5 років тому +21

    Operator should always carry an extra set of underware!

  • @oddballfactor4307
    @oddballfactor4307 Рік тому +4

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

    • @thanchon1
      @thanchon1 Рік тому +1

      Precisely how I got here……

    • @t-yoonit
      @t-yoonit Рік тому

      They fucked with it again. March 2023.

  • @ravethecity
    @ravethecity Рік тому

    Thank You, UA-cam algorithm

  • @Joelontugs
    @Joelontugs Рік тому +3

    Vintage d10 and d9s 😍

  • @charlesbonkley
    @charlesbonkley Рік тому +2

    Edge of your pile excitement!

  • @salvagedb2470
    @salvagedb2470 Рік тому

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

  • @mandrillsass5687
    @mandrillsass5687 Рік тому +1

    I guess youtube wants me to learn about stockpiling coal safely

  • @chunkydumper6156
    @chunkydumper6156 Рік тому +2

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

  • @coloradostrong
    @coloradostrong Рік тому +5

    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. 😅 😂

  • @kc4cvh
    @kc4cvh Рік тому +2

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

  • @michaelwells5617
    @michaelwells5617 Рік тому

    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

  • @mmmmmmmmmm.m.
    @mmmmmmmmmm.m. Рік тому

    That into tho fire 🔥

  • @TheHannible
    @TheHannible 8 років тому +2

    Wow! That was fun.

  • @donalfinn4205
    @donalfinn4205 Рік тому

    What was the music at the start please?

  • @martinswiney2192
    @martinswiney2192 Рік тому +2

    Beware the draw hole.

  • @noelwarner1235
    @noelwarner1235 Рік тому +2

    Conrail! Cool

  • @mirandabri834
    @mirandabri834 4 роки тому +2

    This looks like KRT terminal, anyone know?

  • @gaghetakias
    @gaghetakias 4 роки тому +6

    +1 αν είστε εδώ από τον Κοντογιάννη!

    • @vaskat625
      @vaskat625 4 роки тому

      Ποιος είσαι;

    • @gaghetakias
      @gaghetakias 4 роки тому

      @@vaskat625 της μανς το μνι

  • @phuturephunk
    @phuturephunk Рік тому

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

  • @1738Creations
    @1738Creations Рік тому

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

  • @richardsmuin7665
    @richardsmuin7665 Рік тому +1

    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
      @thesteelrodent1796 Рік тому +1

      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
      @Godzilla-sp9ew Рік тому

      I mean, there is this one: ua-cam.com/video/6KejBRUTUjA/v-deo.html

    • @ShainAndrews
      @ShainAndrews Рік тому

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

    • @AKUJIVALDO
      @AKUJIVALDO Рік тому

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

  • @tr1ppyh1ppy
    @tr1ppyh1ppy 3 роки тому +3

    Gonna lay in a surge pile

  • @supertramp6011
    @supertramp6011 Рік тому +2

    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
      @lucasaccount573 Рік тому +3

      Too much wind, dampness and other factors prevent it.

    • @GilmerJohn
      @GilmerJohn Рік тому +1

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

  • @HoursFreeAOLsp
    @HoursFreeAOLsp 4 роки тому +9

    That music tho...

  • @thedoctor2102
    @thedoctor2102 Рік тому

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

  • @Katalci
    @Katalci Рік тому

    What is that bop of an intro song?

  • @MrPither999
    @MrPither999 Рік тому +1

    Someone got a Casio starter keyboard for Christmas.

  • @bud7707
    @bud7707 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @coloradostrong
      @coloradostrong Рік тому

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

    • @WalkinTall
      @WalkinTall Рік тому

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

  • @dirtydiesels3110
    @dirtydiesels3110 Рік тому

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

  • @Fadem12forReal
    @Fadem12forReal Рік тому

    Music is strong

  • @zachmiller9175
    @zachmiller9175 Рік тому +1

    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
      @Someguy6571 Рік тому +1

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

  • @ryancadwallader9933
    @ryancadwallader9933 Рік тому

    Is that emerald ?

  • @05AWAG
    @05AWAG 11 років тому +5

    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
      @bigorsetomatoesauce6403 4 роки тому

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

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 4 роки тому

      The GPS on your cell phone would work just fine.

    • @mfbfreak
      @mfbfreak 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 4 роки тому +3

      @@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
      @julianixon416 3 роки тому +4

      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.

  • @davidhead5943
    @davidhead5943 Рік тому +8

    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
      @coloradostrong Рік тому +3

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

    • @davidhead5943
      @davidhead5943 Рік тому +2

      Yes what you said ! I'm sorry

    • @jeffbybee5207
      @jeffbybee5207 Рік тому +1

      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
      @thesteelrodent1796 Рік тому

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

    • @ShainAndrews
      @ShainAndrews Рік тому

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

  • @mikeadler434
    @mikeadler434 Рік тому

    👍👍

  • @davidfirth9342
    @davidfirth9342 2 роки тому

    I have a idea put the belt over the hole 🕳

  • @middleclassthrash
    @middleclassthrash Рік тому +3

    What am I doing with my life?

  • @jamesdavis5096
    @jamesdavis5096 Рік тому +1

    Shake hands with danger

  • @t-yoonit
    @t-yoonit Рік тому

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

  • @gusm5128
    @gusm5128 Рік тому

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

  • @billmadison2032
    @billmadison2032 Рік тому

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

  • @MrASSKIKR
    @MrASSKIKR 4 роки тому +1

    Cheesy 8 bit sound effects

  • @Mjg503
    @Mjg503 Рік тому +1

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

  • @Chief176
    @Chief176 Рік тому

    D8K

  • @jessiperry60
    @jessiperry60 Рік тому

    zelda music

  • @captainnutzlos3816
    @captainnutzlos3816 Рік тому

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

  • @wayneakins3644
    @wayneakins3644 Рік тому

    No hazard

  • @bangaloremusic
    @bangaloremusic Рік тому

    Narration by: Mr Emphysema