# Hidden Danger: Safety Improvements for Surge Piles

Mine Safety and Health Administration Hidden Danger: Safety Improvements for Surge Piles DVD505-S - 2000 ( English | Spanish ) Pushing coal on a surge pile has been called the most dangerous job at a prep plant. Nineteen miners have lost their lives in surge pile accidents since l980 and there have been many other close calls. This video will show two ways to protect equipment operators from this danger: extra-strength cab windows or remote controlled dozers.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2000
- By: Mine Safety and Health Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.msha.dvd505.e)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.