Friday, February 26, 2010
Mine Breathing Device Recalled
KENTUCKY....
Due to a problem with the oxygen starter, CSE Corp. of Monroeville, Pa., has voluntarily recalled the entire production lot of more than 4,000 units of a belt-worn breathing device that coal miners count on to save their lives during fires, explosions and entrapments. CSE says it has suspended production of the SR-100 air packs, the most popular self-contained self-rescuer unit in U.S. coal mines, while it investigates the problem. CSE supplies the units to mining companies operating in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. However, it believes the problem may affect less than 1 percent of those units.
Due to a problem with the oxygen starter, CSE Corp. of Monroeville, Pa., has voluntarily recalled the entire production lot of more than 4,000 units of a belt-worn breathing device that coal miners count on to save their lives during fires, explosions and entrapments. CSE says it has suspended production of the SR-100 air packs, the most popular self-contained self-rescuer unit in U.S. coal mines, while it investigates the problem. CSE supplies the units to mining companies operating in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. However, it believes the problem may affect less than 1 percent of those units.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 5:40 PM 
