Identification of safety hazards in Indian underground ...
The trend of fatal accidents occurring in Indian underground coal mines is higher than in the USA''s and Western Australia''s underground coal mines, as shown in Fig. 1 (DGMS, 2017; Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, 2018; MSHA, 2017). The different fatality rates from 2002 to 2017 are represented in Fig. 2.