The explosion was never confirmed nor explained. It did bear an eerie resemblance to the one that triggered the Courrieres mine disaster in France in 1906 which led to the death of 1099 men making it the second deadliest coal mining disaster in history. Tragically, the Chasnala accident was the second such disaster in the mines near …
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DHANBAD: A day after three persons were killed as an illegally-operated coal mine collapsed in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, the administration on Saturday set up a committee to probe into the ...
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Three people, including a ten-year-old child, were reportedly killed after an illegal mine collapsed in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand on Friday.
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The trend of fatal accidents occurring in Indian underground coal mines is higher than in the USA's and Western Australia's underground coal mines, as shown in Fig. 1 (DGMS, 2017; Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, 2018; MSHA, 2017). The different fatality rates from 2002 to 2017 are represented in Fig. 2.
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According to a report by The New Indian Express, the number of fatal accidents in mining has risen since 2016. While the number was 54 in 2016, it rose to …
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He noted that ordinarily, for a fatality to be classified as a mine accident, the deceased or injured should be a mine employee carrying out the assigned duties in a properly registered mining location. Any other incident in an unregistered mine is classified under illegal mining accidents.
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The first decade of the 20th century was particularly problematic for the US mining industry, a time when there were 15 mine explosion accidents linked to 1811 fatalities, or a rate of 120.73 fatalities per accident. In 1907, six mine explosions occurred in US, five of which took place in December alone.
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Sunil Kumar currently working at the Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. Sunil does research in Remote Sensing & GIS, Advance surveying, Astronomy ...
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One person was killed and three were feared trapped after a mishap at an underground mine at BCCL's Basantimata colliery in Dhanbad district.
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Mining is well known as a high-risk industry with high accident rates. However, there is a scarcity of material that aims to investigate and understand the research trends in mining accidents and the current scenarios related to this topic.
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The Chasnala mining disaster was a disaster that happened on 27 December 1975 in a coal mine in Chasnala near Dhanbad in the Indian state of Jharkhand.An explosion in the mine followed by flooding killed 375 miners.. Accident []. The disaster was caused by an explosion at 1:35pm that weakened the wall between the mine pit and another, …
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Eventually, Sardi traveled to northern India's Jharkhand state to photograph people working in Dhanbad, which many have dubbed the "capital of coal." The resulting photos formed Sardi's ...
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In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... coal mine accidents, land subsidence, pollution of water environments, disposal of mine waste, and air pollution. Coal mining by surface and underground methods affects the area's environment, ... ISM Dhanbad, Central Mining Research Institute, etc.
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At least 13 people were killed and many others were feared trapped in a caved-in coal mine in Dhanbad, Jharkhand after it caved in on Tuesday.
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A day after three persons were killed as an illegally-operated coal mine collapsed in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, the administration on Saturday set up a committee to probe into the incident, an official said. The two members of the probe committee are Abhishek Kumar Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Sindri and …
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The rescue operation has been stopped and the spot has been barricaded…A probe has been initiated by the SIT to ascertain the reasons behind the mishap," said Sub-Divisional Police Officer Pitamber Singh Kharwar. At least 24 people have died in accidents, including illegal mining, at ECL's mines in Nirsa itself since 2019, an official …
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At least three people have died and many are feared trapped after an illegal coal mine collapsed in Jharkhand's Dhanbad on Friday.
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CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research. I-00 Technological Innovations I-01 Technology for non-recovery and drag type coke ove....
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The latest investments made by Dhanbad under District Mineral Foundation (DMF) show that about 86 per cent of the Rs 307 crore-plus sanctions are for physical infrastructure in the town, having no bearing on the pressing needs of …
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India being home to some of the worst mine disasters, such as Chasnala near Dhanbad in 1975 in which more than 370 people were killed, the full spectrum of mining activity should be tightly regulated.
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After extricating five bodies from an abandoned coal mine in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, government authorities and the Eastern Coalfields limited Wednesday called off the rescue operation ...
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Mining has been observed as a high-risk industry for a long time. Accident statistics of Indian mines still shows very high rate of injuries and fatalities. The current death rate per 1000 person employed in coal and non-coal mines is 0.27 and 0.40 respectively. The serious injury rate in the current year is also very high and unacceptable.
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Unfortunately we seem to miss the lessons each time from these past incidents or accidents. In this communication, we analyse an accident due to dump slope failure in Indian opencast coal mine, in which a giant debris flow occurred during routine mining operation.
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The plan of the old mine showed that the workings had stopped at K-level. However, after the accident and dewatering of the mine, it was seen that No.3 Incline had gone down to an inclined distance of about 6 m beyond K-level and No.4 incline had gone to an inclined distance of 49 m below K-level.
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At 1:35 pm, on 27 December 1975, an explosion rocked the Chasnala Colliery in Dhanbad, India. The explosion was most likely caused by sparks from equipment igniting a pocket of flammable methane gas. Clouds of coal dust raised by the explosion and accompanying shock wave contribute to these sorts of mine explosions, making the flames…
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On November 13, 1989, 200 workers were breaking coals in the mine by triggering blasts. However, one blast caused the water table to break (the underground boundary between the soil surface and ...
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An alumnus of the 1965 batch of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, was a Braveheart Mining Engineer, who saved the lives of 65 trapped miners due to inundation in the underground mine of Mahavir Colliery at Eastern Coalfields Limited on 13 November 1989. Late Jaswant Singh Gill (Batch of 1965, Mining Engineering)
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A collective / integrated record is created from these reports in the form of mining accident database for detailed analysis. Yearly data on underground coal mining accidents was combined to obtain a unified database, which was utilised in the application of forecasting models based on time series modelling.
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At least four persons died and many are feared trapped as three abandoned coal mines collapsed during illegal mining in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, officials said …
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Several people are feared trapped after an abandoned coal pit collapsed in Jharkhand's Dhanbad, local media reported.
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The Chasnala accident tragically was the second such mining disaster near Dhanbad, the first occurring in Dhori colliery in 1965, where 268 miners died. An investigation by the Court of Inquiry put down the following causes for the accident: Incorrect survey plan, wrong placement of ventilation connection, violation of law by management and ...
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At least three people were killed and many feared trapped when an illegally operated coal mine collapsed near Dhanbad. The incident occurred this morning at the …
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In India, photographer Sebastian Sardi was introduced to Dhanbad, a city known as the "capital of coal" due to the vast number of coal fields and strip-mines. The mining has turned the landscape ...
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