Deep Earth Disaster
As Safety Operations Director at the Blackridge Coal Mine, you're faced with a catastrophic shaft collapse trapping 23 miners 800 feet below. With oxygen systems failing and structural integrity compromised, you must coordinate a rescue while preventing a secondary collapse that could kill everyone - including the rescue team. Time and trust are running out.
Challenges
0
Survivors
0
Popularity
0
Difficulty
B1-B2
Scenario Overview
Your Role
Emergency Safety Operations Coordinator
Conversation Partner
Mine Operations Director Marcus Chen
Setting
Emergency Control Room with flickering monitors showing thermal readings, oxygen levels, and structural stress indicators. Red warning lights pulse across dark screens.
Location
Blackridge Coal Mine Operations Center, Level 1
Learning Objectives
Establish safe rescue route avoiding secondary collapse risk
Maintain critical life support systems for trapped miners
Develop and execute evacuation protocol within 4-hour oxygen window
About This Scenario
As Safety Operations Director at the Blackridge Coal Mine, you're faced with a catastrophic shaft collapse trapping 23 miners 800 feet below. With oxygen systems failing and structural integrity compromised, you must coordinate a rescue while preventing a secondary collapse that could kill everyone - including the rescue team. Time and trust are running out.
How It Starts
“Safety Ops, we've got 23 men trapped in the lower gallery after a major collapse. Oxygen systems are failing, and corporate's breathing down my neck. I need your assessment NOW - but so help me, if this gets to the media before we have a handle on it...”
This is how Mine Operations Director Marcus Chen's greeting will start.
Practice Details
Scenario ID
#809
Category
General
Location Tag
Blackridge Coal Mine Operations Center, Level 1
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