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Rescue and Disaster Management: Prof. Islavath Sreenivasa Rao

The document provides guidelines for investigating accidents at mines in India. It outlines that the objectives of accident investigations are to establish the facts, identify hazards, prevent future incidents, review safety controls and procedures, and recommend corrective actions. It describes the different types of injuries and classifications of accidents as serious, reportable, mining-related, non-mining, or statistical vs. non-statistical. The document also lists the immediate actions required after an accident, such as providing first aid, preserving the accident scene, and notifying the appropriate authorities.

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Rescue and Disaster Management: Prof. Islavath Sreenivasa Rao

The document provides guidelines for investigating accidents at mines in India. It outlines that the objectives of accident investigations are to establish the facts, identify hazards, prevent future incidents, review safety controls and procedures, and recommend corrective actions. It describes the different types of injuries and classifications of accidents as serious, reportable, mining-related, non-mining, or statistical vs. non-statistical. The document also lists the immediate actions required after an accident, such as providing first aid, preserving the accident scene, and notifying the appropriate authorities.

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Rescue 

and Disaster Management

Lecture 5

Prof. Islavath Sreenivasa Rao


Department of Mining Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
West Bengal ‐ 721302
Accident report

DGMS (Tech) Instruction No. 1 of 2017

( Accident Inquiry, Report Writing and Follow‐up Action)
Introduction
• Inquiry into accidents/incidences (dangerous occurrences) is one of the
important functions of this Directorate. Through these inquiries,
procedural and technological gaps in the existing system or practices are
identified.

• Lessons learnt from these inquiries can be utilized to eliminate/reduce


the deficiencies in the system. What is really required is collecting all the
required evidences painstakingly and thereafter an intelligent analysis of
the evidence in the light of Inquiry Officer’s own observations and finally
arriving at a logical conclusion.

• The Inquiry Officer needs to address effective control strategies that will
not only eliminate or reduce the deficiencies due to specific direct and
indirect causes of the accident/incidence but also propose system
deficiencies or inadequate safety system components (root causes) that
has contributed to the accident/incident.
Need & Objectives of Accident Inquiry
• Meet the statutory requirements of investigating into fatal & serious
accidents as required by the Mines Act and allied Regulations.

• Establish the facts

• Identify and eliminate hazards

• Prevent future incidents (leading to accidents)

• Review the adequacy of existing controls and procedures

• Recommend corrective actions which can reduce risk and prevent


recurrence and

• Identify key learning for distribution within the organization and


externally (mining community) as required, and to create awareness.
Injury
• Serious Bodily Injury (SBI):
Any injury which enables, or in probability will involve permanent
loss of any part or any section of body, loss or injury to hearing or
any break in bones.

• Reportable Injury (RI):


Injury other than SBI, which involves enforced absence of 72 hours
or more.
Immediate actions to be taken after 
accident/incident

• On getting information on occurrence of fatal accident or


dangerous occurrences, the Director of Mines Safety of
the region or in his absence Dy. Director of Mines Safety
of the region or Dy. Director of Mines Safety of a sub‐
region shall take necessary action to ensure that:
Immediate actions
• Emergency plan prepared by the management is initiated.

• Appropriate action has been taken to make the area safe so as to prevent
escalation of the situation, work‐persons are evacuated wherever necessary.

• First aid and medical aid is provided to the injured.

• Appropriate action has been taken to preserve the incident scene to retain
valuable information for incident investigation.

• Appropriate action has been taken to identify and implement corrective


actions necessary to prevent further incidents from occurring.

• Photographs/video, as applicable, of the site of accident are taken before too


many changes made so as to preserve the perishable evidence(s).

• Intimation/Notification of the accident/incident to appropriate authorities.


Accident Intimation

• Immediately on receipt of the intimation of occurrence


accidents/incidences, the Directors of Mines Safety of a
region and the Deputy Director of Mines Safety of a
sub‐region shall inform the Ministry, Head Office (H.O.)
and Zonal office (Z.O.)
Information to Ministry
• All fatal accidents shall be intimated to the Ministry of Labour and
Employment, New Delhi by fax or e‐mail in the proforma at ANNEXURE
ACCDT‐1 immediately on receipt of intimation of the occurrence. If the
accident is prima facie Mining Non– statistical or Non–Mining,
clarification on the issue shall be clearly mentioned in the fax/e‐mail.

• All dangerous occurrences, like a major rock burst, outbreak of fire


(either on belowground or on surface likely to affect the workings
belowground), irruption of water, failure of slope or high‐wall or any
dangerous occurrence involving five or more persons, shall be intimated
immediately to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, New Delhi by
fax/e‐mail.

• In case of accidents involving five or more deaths and in other cases if


warranted, a preliminary report in the prescribed proforma at
ANNEXURE ACCDT‐2 shall be furnished through DDG & DG to the
Ministry of Labour and Employment, New Delhi as early as possible after
reaching the site of accident.
Annexure Accident ‐ 1
Annexure Accident ‐ 2
Information to H.O
• Information regarding all fatal accidents including Mining Non‐statistical and
Non‐Mining shall be sent to H.O. by Fax/e‐mail.

• Copies of all communications addressed to the Ministry above shall be


endorsed to H.O.

• In case of fatal accidents involving three (3) deaths or more /serious


accidents involving five(5) or more, DG shall be informed immediately over
telephone. When DG is not available, DDG(HQ) and in his absence, a
Director in H.O. shall be informed.

• Dangerous occurrences of serious nature, like a major rock burst, outbreak


of fire (either on belowground or on surface likely to affect the workings
belowground), irruption of water, failure of a slope or high‐wall or any
dangerous occurrence involving five or more persons, shall be intimated
immediately to DG by Fax/e‐mail and telephone. When DG is not available,
information shall be given to DDG(HQ) and in his absence, a Director in H.O.
Information to H.O
• In case of fatal accidents involving five or more persons, final
report in duplicate shall be submitted within a week of
completing the enquiry, to H.O.

• Where there is any undue delay in finalizing the report; an


interim report giving more details than the preliminary report
and explaining the reasons for delay in finalization shall be
submitted in duplicate to H.O. This would enable submission of
more information to the Ministry. The idea is to forward to the
Ministry as much information as is available in this Directorate
without any loss of time.

• In case of serious accidents involving five or more persons, the


preliminary report shall be submitted to H.O. only.
Information to Zonal Office
• On receipt of the information, all fatal
accidents, serious accidents involving five or
more persons and dangerous
occurrences/incidences shall be immediately
reported to DDG of zone by telephone and
fax/e‐mail.
Officers to be informed in ministry and 
who should inform
• The officer(s) to be informed in the Ministry would be the
Under Secretary. A list of Ministry officials dealing with DGMS
affairs along with Telephone/Fax Numbers/email is enclosed
in ANNEXURE ACCDT–3.

• Director of Mines Safety of a region shall inform the Ministry.


In case of subregion, the Deputy Director of Mines Safety in‐
charge of the sub‐region shall inform the Ministry.
Annexure Accident ‐ 3
Categorizations of Accidents
Mining:
• The accident has occurred in the mine; and

• The accident must have been caused by an operation connected


with mining or incidental to mining.

Non Mining
• In other cases, an accident will be classified as Non‐mining.

• An accident taking place in a mine exempted under section 3(i)(b)


of the Mines Act, 1952 should be treated as Non‐mining accident.
Categorizations of Accidents
Statistical
• The person involved must be an employee of mine; and

• He must be on duty; and

• Existence of the mine should be known to this Directorate prior


to the accident.

Non Statistical

• In other cases, an accident will be classified as Mining Non‐


statistical accident.
Injuries Due to Natural Causes

• In case where injuries (including fatal injuries) are found to have


been caused due to “fits” or other cause not connected with mining
operation, a mention may be made of the fact in the accident
report.

• The final decision whether the accident was a mining accident or


not is to be taken by the Director‐General.
THANK YOU

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