winter safety alert from the virginia
department of mines mental and energy
i'm sammy fleming the mine inspector
i'm matt cage mine inspector we're here
to talk about highway safety in the
winter okay one of the things i want to
talk to you today about is the freezing
falling conditions we have deer in a
high wall and what this we look at is
here you see this high wall has been
cleaned very well
but also you look and you see the
moisture the water that's coming through
today when the sun's shining on it it is
okay but
when the weather gets below 32 degrees
it's going to freeze and then what
happens there is that it will cause this
rock to expand and at that time the sun
hits it it'll cause these rocks that
will pop out it can be very dangerous
the other thing we look at is we want to
make sure we keep good clean benches uh
above the work areas to limit the
exposure the amount of high wall that
people have to work around