Stay Calm and Stay in the Cab!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2008
- Mine Safety and Health Administration
Stay Calm and Stay in the Cab!
DVD544-S - 1999
In this video you'll hear how a bulldozer operator felt while he was buried in a surge pile cavity, and how his company's safety efforts, before and during the accident, contributed to his safe recovery.
Many people are continuously risking their lives for the comfort of society and society does not even know of them. It is such a pity that society appreciates more those people who entertain them than those who gives them comfort in their homes.
Carmel Pule'
much like us truck drivers
AMEN
The knighthood has gone to the court jesters, and the court jester position is being painted over the knights.
@Alvin Dueck Great comment. Before i read your comment I thought there is little respect for the truck drivers. I know this because I drive a truck.
You should blog about it
Coal miners are a different breed. Hard working and they keep the lights on. Show some respect!
Sam vance a little atom keeps my lights on.
Do they really want to be mining coal?
God bless and protect these operators in this dangerous but vital industry.They all deserve our gratitude.
Amazing how fast a Company will invest in safety equipment when it comes close to a fatality. Up until then it's business as usual.
Yes, the whole safety manual from MSHA is written in blood. Is what an inspector told us one time whiles he was inspecting our plant.
I think this is one great company to input so many safety features. My company has one first aid kit & 50% of the meds are outdated.
i would tell your boss and if he doesn't do anything about it, then i would call OSHA and explain it to them....
LOL We have guaze pads from the 70's in the first aid kit.
+Andy Amodio good means you don't have much in the way of accidents
Why are you so concerned about the meds ?
I'm so glad your ok. Everytime I say my prayers, I pray for everyone who works in dangerous jobs. Thank you guys every one for your work for our comfort.
As a Safety Professional I think that you and your bosses deserve a pat on the back and this ones coming from Canada boys. The corrective action you put in place seemed to address several different problems from one accident so feel proud that you team are doing things right. Well done gentlemen well done.
Feel not pride feel knowing we don't know best practice we only know better.
I have been in a similar situation - down in a feeder. Those people that made wisearse comments really have no idea what they are talking about. Just goes to show, doesn't it. It's a sure cure for constipation!
Just as long as you can go home safe at the end of the day you know you're working for a company who cares about your safety. Great place to work.
WOW !!! this is the most amazing story of human survival I have ever heard...it actually made me cry ,a whole 1 hour and 45 min burried in a reinforced bulldozer cab ??? my heart goes to this American Hero .
Okay calm down, ww2 vets had it MUCH tougher than this guy
Having worked in open pit & underground hard rock mines I will flatly state that coal miners of any type have steel balls as theirs is a really dangerous job. Respect these people!
While your trapped in the dozer you can update your resume for the new job you will need to find.
lol
Ha ha oh yeah lol
Or enroll in some remedial spelling classes.
Tremendously moving human story. I'm so glad the fellow made it. Kudos to his friends and helpers.
TH-cam Recommended this video after 13 years what a coincidence.....?
got to admit that guy was calm as can be. I honestly do not know how id react if I were in that situation. course if you think about it, spazzing out wont help and will eliminate your air that much faster.
That's a lot of creative thinking. Nice to see that much energy going into protecting their employees in what looks like a dangerous and not too pleasant environment.
agreed, if you look at your ROPS tag inside the machine you will see that most of the time its capable of withstanding the entire weight of the machine
Glad he survived. He definitely had an Angel watching over him that day.
Unbeleivable. His gaurdian angel was watching out for him.
Haha you can tell the Foreman at 3:15 just opened those safety glasses and put them on because he didn't want to get in trouble for not wearing them. I guarentee you he never wears them lol
Great points about following established safety procedures. What's sad is that it takes a fatality or a near fatality before these kinds of safety procedures are put into place.
THANK GOD HE WAS OK AND GOOD CO WORKER'S HELPED HIM OUT THAT'S RIGHT THEN A GOOD LAUGH
It's great this worker is alive to tell his story.
the reason for track type dozers is for the simple fact that most of the time you have to cut a road up a steep grade to get on top of the pile, also because the pile gets up VERY high so the tracks is unlikely to turn over if you slide or the pile breaks over with you.. which i might add is a VERY common thing to happen.. tires just wont pull out of the tight spots that tracks will..
He's a brave fellow! I would have had to swim outta there! Thanks for the post. mj
Very good video. I have to agree with other comments about safety in industry. Despite some fears many industries are extremely concerned about safety issues because accidents not only cost precious lives (and experienced people) but they cost a lot of money. Preventative safety measures are ultimately far cheaper in an advanced industrial nation.
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Interesting video.... It's good to see these companies working towards positive outcomes.... Every day is a learning day...
The "self rescuer" works like a scuba diver's rebreather. It allows a person to "rebreath" the same air, when air is cutoff (like underwater or inside the coal pile). It's a breathing device that removes C02 and replaces oxygen that has been used by the body.
Joe, they utilize this method at coal fired plants because it is the only efficient and cost effective method for moving such a large amount of coal continuously without interruption. In my area of the country the seasons vary from monsoon rains to below freezing temperatures both of which would foul up the equipment that you prefer and maintenance costs would skyrocket due to abrasion. The plant that I work at burns 1000 tons of coal an hour, 24/7 including weekends and holidays.
God bless all of you guys. Forward thinking is best.
Brilliant video. 10/10
The operator kept his cool, he is no dummy So happy he got to go home to his family
Rob From Canada
Roger is a stronger man than I am that's for sure. I don't think I could have stayed calm being in there that long.
@westkan It's not about being an idiot. The coal is dumped from above into a "feeder" that drops it through a grate onto a conveyor belt. Especially in the wintertime the coal can stick together and form an arch over the belt as coal is removed from underneath by the belt. A dozer is used to feed the coal into the feeder grate and can cause the arch to collapse, putting the dozer and operator down into the feeder and coal then closes in above. It's a hazard of the job, no idiocy involved.
A self rescuer is a breathing apparatus, which utilizes compressed oxygen as source to form isolated oxygen of closed circuit to provide wearer with clean oxygen
Mainly used under a mine or in environment where toxic gases exist or oxygen is deficient
@TheZeke1974 Amen. Many of my relatives including my father were coal miners in Ohio, but it seems many on this page hate miners for some unknown reason.
Good to see that it all worked out well. It could so easily have been a nasty & fatal accident.
just seen this vid yet. glad that he made it out. work save guys.
a very good statement of safety first
it is a rebreather or basically a heavy duty filter for the coal dust coming in to the cab to keep breathing air as clean as possible. might be an audible alarm as well to help guide rescue operations.
@Ashleighsours: This is because companies are bound by privacy laws to protect their employees. In many cases, they're not *allowed* to identify individual employees to the media for their own protection (both the company and, more importantly, the employee)
They got special glass thats made big. Priceless
Its called 'angle of repose' which is the maximum angle a material will sit without collapsing. When material is dropping in to a chute as it was here then it is already at the maximum repose angle. Even touching the sides will cause the 'funnel' to collapse.
Me too! That last line is killer.
this is at Sidney, kentucky in Pike county. this is a very complicated and dangerous job and is hard to prevent and detect a void within the pile when it looks solid at the top.. kind of like walking on thin ice and falling through it.. you just dont know its thin til you fall through the void...
they have a submarine kit in all stock pile dozers... a sub kit contains of very thick hardend glass, and older style sub kits is thinner hardend glass with metal reinforcment bars that lay and bolt in touching the glass inside the cab to prevent it from collapsing while being submerged.
I suppose this is why there is a sign at the entrance to all (Pennsylvania) mine property which states something to the effect as" All people entering this property must pass a safety course".
Each man should have a way to shut down the operation completely.Period!
I like how they really thought about the safety of their employee and implemented the new equipment to monitor things...
Wow!!!!! I hope I never get trapped under a mountain of coal, going into the feeder.
But Seriously, Folks...this is an inportant video. How to stay alive when you're trap in your bulldozer.
My experience with corporations is that they are obsessed with safety. Accidents are expensive and they go to ridiculous effort to stop them.
the name of the this plant is Big Creek Processing, the mine that is beside it is Freedom Energy Mine #1...
thanks for the info :)
need to put this on repeat while i sleep haha everyone is so mono tones and relaxed haha its great:D
Respect for all coal miners world wide ⛏️⚒️🏴
I work at that mine and worked with Roger for many years. He is really good man. It's a shame that our so called President has killed coal. God bless all coal miner's.
Maybe the mines will open back up now that he's almost doing as much damage to our nation as he possibly could.
I wonder what kind of James will respond next
The CSE SCSR100 Hard to believe that it was my uncle's design that still lives on today.
Huge RESPECT & SALUTE to that operator! Coal still provides one-third of the electricity for the entire USA. --- Trump-Pence 2020
how did i get here and why did i contine to watch the whole video after reading both top comments?
A self rescuer is a flash light and an inflatable shovel! :D
Wow he is so lucky.
This happened at a washery near me when he fell in he hit his head and suffocated because the engine was still running.
"We've created some more ideas by having the trucks to stop dumping and concentrating on the one feeder that was giving us a problem". Translation: when shit breaks down, we don't just instruct the operator drive over it.
Coal mining safety has improved 10,000% in the last hundred years, from "insanely dangerous" to "extraordinarily dangerous".
@ 7:21 The guy explained the little flashlight very well, tells us under what conditions we may need to use it (priceless info), but we still don't know what a "self rescuer" is. I think maybe a tiny man with a shovel pops out of the package, then rescues itself. Maybe "emergency air" is a term used by another manufacturer, if that's what it is? @ 9:00 the man says to "stay calm and conserve the air in the cabin", he doesn't mention a self rescuer or emergency air.
@SixFoHopper -we still havent found elroy or his dozer because the bayou sucked him down...what a tragedy and lose...3 kids and a wife...the rescue team said the bottom of the swamp is more like 75 feet of muck and goo...please be informed and use pre-cauction at ALL TIMES. Elroy had 25 years of experience before he was sucked down the mire in south louisiana bog pitt.
What the fuck am i watching!!!! ahhhhhh youtube... u did it to me again!!!!!!
That could make a bad situation worse.
The best way really is to dig it out carefully. If the pile collapsed more while they're pulling him out from above, it would crush him and anyone who went down there with him. They don't know what other voids may be in there so if they pull on it with chains it could also cause a worse collapse.
The best way really is to dig where they can see and not put any unnecessary forces on the pile to disturb it more than they have to.
I guess they wouldn't let him take a shower before the interview. They took him straight from the rescue to do this interview lol
those guys dont take showers. they rub them selves with vasline before each shift so it wont stick to there skin then take a rag and wipe it off.
This scared me just watching it.
i worked this stockpile 5 months back... probably the hardest pile i seen in my life.. there was no excavator there at the time so they had to use other dozers to get Roger out..
@offamychain I was thinking the same thing. I had one idea in mind. Then a short time later realized the simplest solution is a grizzly grate. Not that big of a deal.
Or even a series of concrete piling rising up from the inner edge of draw point. Making it so should a dozer pass the threshold, it'll only tip slightly before hitting the pillars.
@1nm1 Just checked it out. It appears that they are actually re-breathers that scrub CO2 and re-oxygenate from a small internal O2 bottle.
Never, never underestimate safety.
I'm glad they finally asked the question at 9:50 -- why in hell do operators even need to be in the dozers?
i t6hink that is so ausome keep up the great work guys...
As for myself, I enjoy the ability to see.
That dude was pretty cool. No doubt in my mind he stayed calm and cool
Fuck me that whole operation is dangerous.
Dont see that kind of shit in open cuts here in Australia. not the ones i have worked at.
@Squarerig it's when the friction of the coal creates a "hole" void.
Like some old stone bridges made by compression, still standing today. Arches
they don't use a large track hoe?
what about remote vibrators(offset spinning mass) placed in circle at wall of void?
some of the "mass finishing machine" use offset mass to remove burrs and mirror finishes. its neat to watch
horizontal augers, dumping cones, they had problems with grain and no more.
ashleighsours, Well spoken!!
Good education,, thanks
they do, its called a SCSR ( self contained self rescuer ) which is shown in the video.. there are 2 in each dozer which is good for up to an hour under NORMAL breathing..
Light in case of Darkness? Who thought of that one!!!
I was curious too so i looked it up. a self rescuer is an emergency air unit it can provide an hour of air.
well they normally use rock trucks on strip jobs... they haul he coal from other underground mines to there with 10 wheelers and 18 wheelers... they also have a " glory hole " which is a hole in the ground miles away with a feeder at the bottom, coal dumps from another underground mine to outside, then falls in the hole and belted thru another mine outside at this stock pile.... pretty big mine you really wouldnt beleive how big it is..
@Booger6995
Ah right! Thanks for your reply! That explains a lot to me.
They also get a fleshlight, ya know, cause it get lonely when you're trapped in there for a while.
same here i am glad he is ok that would be crazy ..... not good
''We have specially toughened oversize glass that won't break in, but you can kick it out..........''
Thats really useful when your trapped under a pile of coal!!!!!!!!!!
Well, it may be the quickest way to get out of the coal once the top layer has been removed when a rescue team is available. If people had to wait until the whole dozer was dug out and pulled out, the person may have died from asphyxiation. It's a good idea in my eyes man. :)
Sorry guys who fell asleep...this is reality and a textbook rescue....this is what really happens and is NOT Hollywood..
what really sucks is that wether ur an operator or a labour in a great or a not so good company.. you're just a number..thats how i feel, and it doesnt matter how many years you've worked for that company
#5252
That remote control dozer is a great machine!
I thought I knew this location and when the Forman came out I knew for sure that was Papal.
self rescuer is a device you use to breathe in heavy load particulate air mostly used in underground applications it supplies oxygen through a rebreather system that removes carbon dioxide from your breathe to improve the length they last google them they are a miners life saver, they have saved my life more than half a dozen times underground
I wonder what it would cost or how feasible it would be to put the dozer on a cable tether? Have the cable on a spring loaded roll so that it would stay relatively tight all the time. Have some swivels on it so it won't get tangled up. Have it attached to the dozer and go up a flexible antenna-like post so it stays out of the way. Then if a dozer goes down a hole or gets stuck, winch it out with a monster winch or pull with bigger dozers.
New for 2012, the Dooooozer's cab has now access to youtube and Facebook.
Good thing that soon this dangerous, dirty industry will no longer be needed.
thats not a power plant, its a coal preparation plant at Sidney, Kentucky.. i used to work this stock pile about a year ago until i got laid off.. when the pile gets up that big, theres no telling exactly where the feeder is until there is an actual "hole" on the top.. sometimes it will feed through at the bottom, and you never see it at the top.. if you so some research, coal trucks in the number source of haulage in the world in mining industry
In response to Robert111 : Always jump from a tipping or falling machine. You can cushion the fall of the machine that way. Or even catch it and tip back up on it's tracks/wheels. Me, personally, I prefer to stay in the cab, seatbelt on. Just my thinking anyway. Well gotta get back to my Tonka toys now.
@1nm1 Sorry about that. Checked the wrong device. It is a CO scrubber only. One time use. Must be in atmosphere that has minimum 19.2 % Oxygen to work properly.
My coal truck was loaded heavy, S turn too fast, weight physics break the weld @ the fifth wheel to trailer, truck turns over on it's side @ 50 mph ( remember 80,000 lbs ) slide in the tractor, on it's side, towards a 100 ft. drop off. Stop just feet from going over, coal all over this 2 lane, heavy travelled road, trailer on it's side stops just inches from coming through the cab into my face. I push the door up, get out to the ground, fall to my knees, thank GOD it ended like it did. The last day driving for me. Wife begged, got a new job. COAL hauling and pit work is dangerous beyond most people's knowledge. Loaders, drivers, operators get killed all the time. You stand that trailer up to dump, 40,000 lbs comes out, 20,000 lbs sticks in the nose, your on soft coal and it start to go over. Maybe you can get it down and move forward before it turns over, maybe not. Most drivers have done it. Not deadly bit dangerous. Respect the coal haulers that pass you on the road, pit men. A HARD job, from can til can't. May God Bless and keep all safe. This guy will never be the same. No PTSD benefits in the coal world, but it's there.
+sandspar Dangerous work indeed... I just wish the coal buckets where I live (PA) would drive a bit safer. I don't know how you guys get paid, but around here, they get paid by load and so they drive at dangerous speeds to fit more loads in a shift. They have a very poor reputation around here, I've seen them run red lights, speeding up to stop lights doing 40+ MPH and then slam on all the brakes when they can't make the light, coal buckets trying to pass each other both doing 15-20MPH and holding up all the traffic, etc. I'd like to give more respect for the people who haul coal, but around here... they drive like maniacs. They're driving insanely heavy pieces of machinery, but they don't believe in Newton's Laws whatsoever.
Dhalin Yeah, now I live on the same road I used to drive, and I fear for my family's lives daily. I know what you mean, and after contemplating it at length the only thing that could possibly work is to put the culpability on the brokers and owners, then "fairly" enforce existing traffic laws. But that'll never happen, because it's all about the taxes paid by the ones receiving the loads, and corruption will always be king. So, sorry, but there will be coal moving long after we're gone. Stay Safe...