Clean technology is the safe technology: A success story of dimensional limestone mining

摘要

The conventional manual mining of dimensionallimestone, Kotah Stone, has not only degraded the environmentseverally but also proved to be unsafe. Major part of humanefforts has been wasted in non-productive jobs causingexcessive fatigue and mental stress, inflicting excessive injuriesto eye, leg, foot, arm fingers and spinal chord. An appropriatetechnology was innovated by the author based on concept of in-situ cuffing & sizing prior to splitting. This process haseliminated many hazardous manual process resulting in sharpreduction in accidents, human fatigue and stress. It has created acool and clean working environment which keeps worker calm,tolerant and alert against any danger.