Dayan Contract Mining LLC’s Shaft #2 Barrel Equipping Project Team achieved two million hours of safe work, without any lost time injuries, between July 2017 and early March 2020.

Congratulations are in order to Dayan Contract Mining LLC’s Shaft #2 Barrel Equipping Project Team! Crew members for this scope of work achieved two million hours of safe work, without any lost time injuries, between July 2017 and early March 2020. Concurrent with the headframe equipping, the Dayan team was busy removing the sinking steel in the shaft, from the collar level to shaft bottom at 1,284 m below surface. Once removed, personnel began installing over 3,000 tons of steel in the shaft to include brackets, buntons, 10 sets of guides, full brattice, shaft station steel and scroll plates. All steel installations were performed from four separate installation conveyances of which Dayan designed and installed. The next parcel of work, was the removal of the shaft sinking gear consisting of six headframe mounted sheaves, two ground mounted Nordberg sinking hoists and four Hepburn winches. At least eight months of preparation went into the roping procedure of the Service and Production Koepe hoists. Consideration was given to the assembly of the service cage, counterweight, skips, rope-up bogey, to the training of personnel on the Clamping Lifting Device and friction winch, also the location of each worker manning the tuggers, and all radios at various levels in the headframe and down the shaft. This work required six ropes per hoist for a total of 270 tons of rope alone!

Congratulations to all contributors, for maintaining impressive levels of safety and productivity on site

Safety – First, Last and Always.