Annual Report,2009 - Directorate General of Mines Safety

DGMS Annual Report,2009
notices were issued for various types of serious defects, details of which are given in table:4
below :
TABLE:4 IMPROVEMENT NOTICES ISSUED UNDER SECTIONS 22(1) AND 22A(1)
OF THE MINES ACT, 1952 IN COAL MINES DURING 2009
SL.NO. NATURE OF DEFECT NO. OF CASES
1. High benches in opencast workings 24
2. Inadequate support 2
3. Poor ventilation 7
4. Inadequate coal dust suppression 9
5. Isolation stopping 3
6. Improper/ non-provision of travelling road 1
7. Danger of Inundation 5
8. Unstable workings 2
9. Lag in stowing 1
10. Accumulation of gases 3
11. Defective Electrical installation 9
12. Inadequate earth leakage protection 0
13. Defective winding rope 0
14. Other defects in winding installation 9
15. Defective shot-firing practices 0
16. Others 42
TOTAL 117
30 (thirty) prohibitory orders under Section 22(3), 22A(2) and 22(1A) of the Mines Act, 1952
were issued during the year 2009. These orders were imposed for various dangerous
conditions prevailing at the mines, details of which are given in table 5:
TABLE:5 PROHIBITORY ORDERS ISSUED UNDER SECTIONS 22(3) AND 22A(2)
AND 22(1A) OF THE MINES ACT,1952
IN COAL MINES DURING 2009
SL.NO. NATURE OF DEFECT NO. OF CASES
1. High benches in opencast workings 14
2. Inadequate support 1
3. Poor ventilation 3
4. Inadequate coal dust suppression 1
5. Isolation stopping 0
6. Improper/ non-provision of travelling road 0
7. Danger of Inundation 1
8. Unstable workings 1
9. Lag in stowing 0
10. Accumulation of gases 0
11. Defective Electrical installation 1
12. Inadequate earth leakage protection 0
13. Defective winding rope 0
14. Other defects in winding installation 3
15. Defective shot-firing practices 0
16. Others 5
TOTAL 30
1.7.2 Metalliferous Mines
In metalliferous mines inadequate benching and unstable slope in opencast workings and
non-appointment of manager and supervisory officials in the mines were the main reasons for
which improvement notices and prohibitory orders were issued. Notices issued under Sections
22(1) & 22A(1) of the Mines Act, 1952 during the year 2009 were 32 (thirty two). Prohibitory
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