EFFECT OF GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND BLASTING PRACTICE IN FLY ROCK ACCIDENT AT JOHOR, MALAYSIA
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.9634Keywords:
Rock blasting, fly rock accident, geological structure, blasting practiceAbstract
Blasting operation is common method in hard rock excavation at civil engineering and mining sites. Rock blasting results in the fragmentation along with environmental hazards such as fly rock, ground vibration, air-blast, dust and fumes. Most of the common accidents associated with blasting are due to fly rock. A fly rock accident had occurred on 15 July 2015 at a construction site at Johor, Malaysia. Due to this accident, nearby factory worker was killed while two other workers were seriously injured after being hit by rock debris from an explosion at construction site, 200 m away from the factory. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the causes of fly rock accident based on geological structures and blasting practice such as blast design, pre inspection on geological structures, identifying danger zone due to blasting and communication and evacuation of personnel before blast. It can be concluded that fly rock could have been controlled in three stages; initial drilling of holes based on blast design, ensure limiting charge for holes having less burden or having geological discontinuity, and selecting proper sequence of initiation of holes.References
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