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Training for mine rescuers conducted aboveground A video describing challenges experienced by mine rescue personnel. Mine rescue or mines rescue is the specialised job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in underground mines because of mining accidents, roof falls or floods and disasters such as explosions.
The Sheppton Mine disaster and rescue in Sheppton, Pennsylvania, United States, was one of the first rescues of trapped miners accomplished by raising them through holes bored through solid rock, an event that gripped the world's attention during August 1963.
Rescue workers standing near the illegal rat-hole mine. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Indian Army, and the Navy have been deployed to the site. 100 rescuers in total are said to be at the site. [4] As of 16 January, the bodies of four workers are said to have been recovered from the site. [5]
Rescue Hole No. 1, now capped, used to rescue the miners. The white pipe to the right is the air shaft used to get air to the miners. After Rescue Hole No. 1 broke through into the mine, rescuers signaled the trapped miners by tapping on the 6-inch (150 mm) drill steel with a hammer, and a faint response was heard.
The Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals' Springfield Mine Rescue Station is a historic facility located at 609 Princeton Avenue in Springfield, Illinois.Built in 1910–11, it was the first dedicated state-run institution in the United States established to prevent and respond to mining disasters.
The 2010 Copiapó mining accident, also known as the "Chilean mining accident", began on 5 August 2010, with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert, 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile. 33 men were trapped 700 meters (2,300 ft) underground and 5 kilometers (3 mi) from the mine's entrance and were rescued after ...
The International Mines Rescue Competition (IMRC) is a biennial event which facilitates the testing of underground emergency response capability across global mining and Mine Rescue jurisdictions. The competition is held by the governing mine rescue body of the host nation or jurisdiction.
Jaswant Singh Gill (22 November 1939 – 26 November 2019) was an Indian engineer-in-chief at Coal India known for his efforts in rescuing 65 coal miners trapped in a flooded mine in Raniganj, West Bengal, in 1989. This rescue operation is considered one of the most successful coal mine rescue operations in India and the world.