Is working underground in coal mines really hard and dangerous?

Underground coal mine work is basically operated by state-owned coal mines now. The former small dirty coal mines and private and township coal mines have basically reduced production and ceased production. In state-owned coal mines, safety supervision and protection are becoming more and more complete, and various production facilities and equipment are becoming increasingly modern. Compared with the previous century, there is a huge gap in the labor cost of coal miners. In addition to the excavation team and the coal mining team, the workers going down the mine are relatively physically weak. Pay more, and the rest of the work is just keeping time, so the workload is not heavy.

Hard work

1. Equipment before entering the well: miner's lamp, mining hat, mask, towel, self-rescuer, cotton coat, rain boots, all are indispensable. It is heavy to walk and inconvenient to move.

2. Working hours: Implement underground shift handover, and the actual working time will exceed the prescribed time by more than 2 hours.

3. Construction: The underground space is limited, and many materials need to be lifted manually. Every process requires workers to cooperate with each other to complete, such as support, coal mining, spraying, shoveling coal, equipment installation, etc., all of which require labor and are extremely hard work.

Dangers

1. Flood: A water leakage accident occurred during the mining process, causing the tunnel to be flooded and causing a large number of casualties.

2. Gas explosion: Gas accumulates to a certain concentration, and when it encounters an ignition source and a suitable oxygen concentration, it will explode, destroying everything, and it is too cruel to watch.

3. Roof: It is suitable to control the roof and roof during construction, and it is extremely suitable to cause lacerations and injuries from gangue gangs, which is at the forefront of today's coal mine accidents.

4. Mechanical equipment: Underground construction requires a lot of machinery and equipment. Such as vehicle transportation, tunnel boring machine cutting coal, machine tool support, belt operation, Feng Shui pipeline hanging, equipment installation, etc. Mistakes will inevitably occur during work, resulting in casualties.

5. Occupational diseases: The cold environment causes rheumatism, waist and leg pain. A large amount of dust flying causes lung disease. Noise causes chronic deafness.

Working underground in a coal mine is indeed very hard! There is also a certain danger! It's still very safe now!

To work underground in a coal mine, you have to go down to a depth of about 600 meters below the ground in a cage. The cage is similar to an elevator, except that it is very fast. It is basically the same or even faster than the express elevator of a skyscraper. After going underground, you usually have to take an underground train to sit near the working face, and then you can go to the underground coal mining working face. The process from the wellhead to the working face usually takes more than an hour. The distance is generally more than 5 kilometers, and some are more than ten kilometers away. Most of the time takes about 2 hours.

After arriving at the working surface, it is a hard 8 hours of work, and the underground working environment is also relatively harsh. Many mines now use mechanized coal mining, and physical labor is much less than before. However, noise, dust, high temperature, humidity, etc. are some of the major hazards of underground work. If it were not for mechanized coal mining, the workload of manual labor underground would be even greater. Not much to say about this.

Generally, those who work in the mines live near the mining area, and some also live in the city. The daily commute to the mine takes about one hour. Many people get up before dawn and return home at night. You can do the math. The daily commuting time is 2 hours, the time to go back and forth to the mine is about 4 hours, and the work time is 8 hours. Working in the mine takes about 14 hours a day. It only takes 10 hours to go home every day. This is the real situation of coal mine work.

The most important thing in coal mines now is safety. The biggest improvement now is safety measures. Various safety sensor probes are scattered all over the mines. Now when working in a coal mine, as long as you don't violate the rules and don't act recklessly, nothing will happen. The safety risks are much lower than before. Many coal mines have eliminated accidents involving minor injuries or more by strengthening management and safety protection. Therefore, it is very safe to work in coal mines now.

Safety is now the top priority in coal mines. If there are no accidents, there will basically be no major accidents. As for minor injuries such as touching a finger, scratching the skin, or knocking off a toe, it is due to personal inattention and is something you will encounter in any job.

The safety of coal mines is much greater than that of the transportation industry, especially in terms of major accidents. With so many coal mines across the country, there may not necessarily be several major safety accidents a year, but in the transportation industry, you can hear or see them almost every day.

Nowadays, the income of coal mine workers is not very good. Every day is very hard, and because they work three shifts, they have very little rest time. Nowadays, many coal mining workers in coal mines earn more than 10,000 yuan a month when the profits are good, but only a few thousand yuan a month when the profits are not good. In addition, silicosis, an occupational disease in coal mines in the last century, has been improved and implemented with the improvement and implementation of underground dust removal facilities. As long as you operate according to the regulations, you will basically not get this disease in your lifetime.

So, today’s underground work in coal mines is no longer what it used to be. Apart from working underground, there is no big difference from other above-ground work. On the contrary, the physical strength may be much smaller compared to other types of work. At least it is better than those who build houses, deliver goods, or set up stalls and make snacks. And there is also a complete social security of five insurances or six insurances and one fund.