Stochastic modeling of accident risks associated with an underground coal mine in Turkey

Safety Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-87

  Sari, Mehmet ^a   Selcuk, A Sevtap ^b   Karpuz, Celal ^b   Duzgun, H Sebnem B ^b  

^a AKSARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accident analysis; Distribution fitting; Poisson distribution; Stochastic risk modeling; Underground coal mining

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL MINES; CODES (SYMBOLS); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LIGNITE MINES; MECHANICS; MINES; MINING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POISSON EQUATION; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; ACCIDENT RISKS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES; DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; DISTRIBUTION FITTING; EXPECTED RISKS; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MINE MANAGEMENTS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; RELATIVE RISKS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELING; STOCHASTIC RISK MODELING; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY MODELS; UNDERGROUND COAL MINES; UNDERGROUND COAL MINING;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; COAL MINING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TURKEY (BIRD);

EID: 56949090300     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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