AI for Mining Safety.
Investigate the incident. Follow up the fix.
Underground shafts, open pits, and remote energy operations, far from any office. Crews type what happened, and Intero investigates it to a cited cause your engineer reviews and signs.
Why Mining Safety Needs AI
Confined workings, heavy mobile equipment, and hazards that evolve with the ground itself demand intelligence that manual processes cannot deliver.
Common mining hazards
Mining remains one of the most hazardous industries. These are the hazards behind most serious incidents underground and on the surface.
Ground Control Failures
Roof falls, rib collapses, and slope failures in open pits. Ground conditions change as workings advance, and yesterday’s stable heading can be today’s fall of ground.
Ventilation & Atmosphere
Methane accumulation, oxygen deficiency, and dust-laden air in confined workings. Ventilation failures escalate quickly and put entire sections at risk at once.
Haulage & Mobile Equipment
Haul trucks, loaders, and shuttle cars operating in tight quarters with limited visibility. Powered haulage is consistently among the leading causes of mining fatalities.
Electrical & Energy Isolation
High-voltage distribution, trailing cables, and equipment maintenance without proper lockout. Wet, confined conditions amplify every electrical hazard.
Hoisting & Shaft Incidents
Cage and skip operations, shaft inspections, and winder failures. Hoisting incidents combine fall, crush, and entrapment hazards in a single system.
Dust & Long-Latency Exposure
Respirable silica and coal dust drive disease that surfaces years later. Exposure events need to be captured and trended now, not reconstructed from memory later.
How Intero helps
Intero works from the first typed report to the follow-up on every fix, and keeps a person on the sign-off.
Reporting from the Face
Crews type or dictate a report at the end of a cut or back on the surface and attach photos. Intero asks the follow-up questions one at a time and opens the case.
Evidence-Cited Investigation
Intero tests every credible explanation against the evidence, grades the barriers and traces contributing factors up to the organization and regulation, with every finding cited.
Fixes Followed Up Across Sites
Each finished corrective action is read back: did the fix hold? Intero looks through later cases across your operations for the same failure coming back.
Review & Sign-Off
Every investigation is a draft until someone with approval rights signs it off. Any quality flag needs a written reason first, and every edit is recorded.
A ventilation alarm becomes an investigation.
Illustrative scenario.
A ventilation alarm sounds underground during a shift. A crew member types what happened once back on the surface.
- 1Report typed on the surface, with a photo of the fan control panel
- 2Intero asks: what was the fan’s state when the alarm sounded, and how does anyone know?
- 3Explanations tested: fan trip, regulator change, a blocked return
- 4Evidence gap: the monitoring log for the shift, suggested to the ventilation officer
- 5Corrective action owned and tracked; its owner is asked later whether it held
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