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Assessment of noise controls commonly used on jumbo drills and bolters in western underground metal mines.

Reeves ER

2004 SME Annual Meeting, Feb 23-25, Denver, Colorado, preprint 04-112. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2004 Feb; :1-7

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The mining industry has recognized the importance of engineering controls as a primary means of preventing hearing loss. The noise control treatments most commonly observed on drills and bolters during this study were windshields, sound-absorbing material, and hydraulic motor covers. These controls were evaluated on machines at underground metal mines to determine the amount of noise reduction achieved by each control. Results show that absorbing material has very little effect on the noise level. The noise reduction attributable to the motor covers was dependent on the material used to create the cover. Properly installed windshields were the most consistent control.

Noise; Noise-control; Engineering-controls; Underground-mining; Metal-mining; Mining-industry; Mining-equipment; Hearing-loss; Noise-induced-hearing-loss; Noise-levels; Noise-exposure; Mine-workers; Noise-measurement

NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236

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Conference/Symposia Proceedings

2004

PRL

Research Tools and Approaches: Intervention Effectiveness Research

2004 SME Annual Meeting, Feb 23-25, Denver, Colorado, preprint 04-112

PA