The Hiki Tiki Mine

The Basic Mine Layout

Ventilation/ Beltways/ Escapes

SCSRs / Rescue Chambers / Supplemental Sampling

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

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

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

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

Incident at 5:30 PM – Day 1

• It is 5:30 in the evening at the Hiki Tiki Mine. The first 10 hour shift of the day will end at 6:00 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.

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.

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 _____• Call Drilling crews to begin drilling air holes to reach the mine rescue chambers or other points of interest

____• Call CNN and have them send a crew to interview you _____• Tell everyone onsite to call home and tell their families they are ok _____• Have your people start setting up rooms for family members and a separate room for the press _____

5:45 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 don’t 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

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 ____• Call CNN and have them send a crew to interview you _____• Tell everyone onsite to call home and tell their families they are ok _____• Have your people start setting up rooms for family members and a separate room for the press _____• Let the informal mine rescue team go in ____• (Only if you got a list of people in the mine) Begin calling the families of those in the mine _____