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 _____