The Hiki Tiki Mine

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The Hiki Tiki Mine
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The Basic Mine Layout
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Ventilation/ Beltways/ Escapes
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SCSRs / Rescue Chambers / Supplemental Sampling
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Mine Detection Equipment

• Monoxide Detectors and Fire Suppression up and
  down beltlines
• Hardwired to surface to trip alarms
• Mine Tracking System
• Wireless
• Uses relay stations to send miner positions to
  surface
• Also capable of text messaging
• Traditional Hardwire telephones to underground
• Hardwired connections to surface on conveyor
  operations

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More Detection Equipment

• Intakes and Faces Monitored with wireless
  realtime 3 gas sensors
• Blue dots are locations of tubes that feed to
  surface and can be physically sampled
• They are for emergency not primary monitoring

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Service In the Area

• Rescue Teams
• Mine has 2 rescue teams of its own
• 1 hour away the Miki Tiki Mine Rescue Team
• 2.5 hours away Wild Turkey Mine Rescue Team
• Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals
• 1.5 hours away
• Equipped with siesmic sensor aray
• 5 hours away mine rescue drill and hoist
• MSHA
• 2.5 hours away field office with advisory
  personnel and inspectors
• 10 hours away mobile gas monitoring and command
  post

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Other Services

• Local Hospital 30 minutes
• Ambulance 30 minutes
• Gas Sampling and Analysis Labs 3 hours away
  (can send samples for analysis)
• Martin Water wells
• Well drills up to 2.5 ft in diameter
• 2 hours
• Foam and nitrogen and water flooding equipment
• 5 hours away

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Incident at 530 PM Day 1

• It is 530 in the evening at the Hiki Tiki Mine.
  The first 10 hour shift of the day will end at
  600 and the hot seat change out crews are on the
  man trips on the way to the two mine sections.
  (The one going to section 2 was late entering the
  mine and will be late getting to the section).
• There is a loud popping sound and rumble,
  followed by a wave of dust out of the mine
  portal.
• Alarms in the control room start going off. The
  belts have shut-down. The mine fan sensors
  report a shock wave but the fan is still running.

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The Incident

• The tracking and gas composition network beyond
  6,000 ft in appears to have lost relay stations,
  but still may have power and the network will try
  to reroute
• A bunch of breakers have flipped but some things
  may still have power (breakers still on)
• The phones are offline
• A lot of people are looking on in horror
• One of your mine rescue team members appears to
  be checking equipment and trying to round-up
  people.

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Pick the First 5 Things You Would Do.

• Have your security people send people back into
  the buildings and post a guard at the mine
  entrance. ____
• Call MSHA ____
• Call the Rescue Station at the State Department
  of Mines and Minerals (The have stare rescue
  equipment) ____
• Shut Down the Mine Fan _____
• Instruct your electrical and computer people to
  try to get the sensors and tracking network back
  on-line ____
• Shut down power to the sensor and tracking
  network ____
• Have Your Foreman and Supervisors begin counting
  the people on the job and finding which ones are
  members of your mine rescue or firefighting teams
  ____
• Have the control room get you the names of people
  underground and their last known position ____
• Send Everyone Home _____
• Send a team of 3 people over to monitor the
  emergency shaft and to use the rescue hoist to
  pull people out if anyone shows up _____
• Shut Down anything on main underground breaker
  (may not be everything) ___
• Have Your Foreman and Supervisors send home
  everyone not trained or likely to be of service
  for mine rescue and fire fighting operations ____
• Have Your Foremen and Supervisors identify people
  on scene and then send home everyone that is not
  on a mine rescue team or fire fighting team or
  that does not volunteer for service _____
• Call the Home Office _____
• Call the 2 Closest Miner Rescue teams _____
• Begin calling all members of your rescue and fire
  fighting teams on other shifts ____
• Shut down every other mine circuit going into the
  mine that has not been named somewhere else.
  _____
• Call your Mother and Say Your Scared ____
• Call an Ambulance _____

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545 PM Day 1 Accident 15 minutes

• A Man trip emerges from the decline with all
  miners ok. It is mantrip 2 that was headed for
  the northwest panel. None of them are wearing
  self rescuers or report seeing smoke but they say
  they believe from a loud rush of air that there
  has been an explosion.
• If you chose an accounting of people underground
  you have the list now. If you did not you dont
  have a list.
• The leader of mine rescue team 1 has jury rigged
  a team of 7 people (5 untrained) that want to go
  in. They have air flow meters and gas meters

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Name 3 More Things You Would Do

• Have your security people send people back into
  the buildings and post a guard at the mine
  entrance. ____
• Call MSHA ____
• Call the Rescue Station at the State Department
  of Mines and Minerals (The have stare rescue
  equipment) ____
• Shut Down the Mine Fan _____
• Instruct your electrical and computer people to
  try to get the sensors and tracking network back
  on-line ____
• Shut down power to the sensor and tracking
  network ____
• Begin calling all members of your mines own
  rescue teams ____
• Have the control room get you the names of people
  underground and their last known position ____
• Send Everyone Home _____
• Send a team of 3 people over to monitor the
  emergency shaft and to use the rescue hoist to
  pull people out if anyone shows up _____
• Shut Down anything on main underground breaker
  (may not be everything) ___
• Have Your Foreman and Supervisors send home
  everyone not trained or likely to be of service
  for mine rescue and fire fighting operations ____
• Have Your Foremen and Supervisors identify people
  on scene and then send home everyone that is not
  on a mine rescue team or fire fighting team or
  that does not volunteer for service _____
• Call the Home Office _____
• Call the 2 Closest Miner Rescue teams _____
• Shut down every other mine circuit going into the
  mine that has not been named somewhere else.
  _____
• Call your Mother and Say Your Scared ____
• Call an Ambulance _____
• Call Drilling crews to begin drilling air holes
  to reach the mine rescue chambers or other points
  of interest ____