Power haulage accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in Canadian, Australian, American, Indian, and Spanish mines, and is the fourth leading cause of fatal accidents in underground African mines. However, this rate is expected to grow with a move toward increased power haulage and less manual labour in Africa. Many of the fatal injuries have been associated with load-haul-dump (LHD) ope...

In the 3 years to June 30, 2008, 4,633 injuries occurring underground at NSW (Australia) coal mines were reported to the insurer. Equipment was involved in 2149 of these injuries (46%). The narrative field accompanying these reports was examined to determine opportunities for controlling injury risks. The most common equipment types involved were: Continuous miner (12% of all underground injuri...

In order to solve the problem of aviation equipment system maintenance, it is very difficult judge faulty finished product according fault phenomenon, author proposes a data mining-based prediction model for failure products. The takes historical record as input, clusters large number descriptions through text clustering obtain phenomenon clusters, and establishes many-to-many relationship betw...