Darda ROCK SPLITTERS
Main Darda Rock Splitters
Application Reports Index
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Rescue operations -
splitters save lives
Rescue Service:
In Poland, Darda Splitting devices are the main
evacuation equipment used for accidents in hard coal mines as well
as copper, zinc and methane pits. The Polish hard coal emergency service
has been using splitting devices since the 1968 in salvage actions
after pit collapses.
Since 1980, splitting machines have been used in all the technical
rescue stations operated by the civil defence force. In addition,
they form part of the basic equipment of Polish rescue forces participating
in international disaster relief operations, such as the severe earthquake
in Spitak, Armenia in 1988.
Actual Cases:
At 00.26 on 05.06.1993, a dispatcher at the Rudna
pit summoned the rescue service to the Rudna Poelnena shaft, section
C-23, where slabs of rock had broken away from the roof and trapped
two miners. A Darda splitter demolished the slabs, allowing the rescue
operation to be completed and the men to be rescued within 2.5 hours.
At 03.47 on 07.04.1995, the dispatcher at the Polk- owice mine sent
the rescue team to the Polkowice Zachodnic (West) shaft, section G-31,
where slabs of rock had trapped a miner. These were demolished with
the aid of a splitting machine and the man was rescued in the space
of only two hours.
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