Case study · Mining cabin air quality
Real-Time Cabin Monitoring at Drummond Mine
Aethair PRO across a mining vehicle fleet in Colombia
The customer
Drummond Company
Established in 1935, this privately held company specializes in coal mining and processing, with significant mining operations in both Alabama and Colombia. Drummond is one of the largest exporters of thermal coal globally.
- Industry
- Coal mining · Natural resources · Energy
- Headquarters
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Website
- drummondltd.com
The challenge
Sealed Cabins Are Not Automatically Safe Zones
In remote mining operations, large haul trucks and excavation equipment work in dusty, high-emission environments. Operators sit inside sealed cabins, which are often assumed to limit their exposure. But while these cabins are typically considered safe zones, they can still exceed recommended thresholds for fine particulates from diesel exhaust and dust, and for carbon dioxide (CO₂).
What was deployed
An All-in-One Monitor in the Cab
Aethair PRO is a compact, rugged, and flexible monitor that Drummond deploys across its fleet of vehicles for compliance reporting and worker safety.
It fits Drummond's existing workflows and actively simplifies them. Where monitoring used to take multiple devices and often forced operations to pause, a single all-in-one unit now captures real-time data continuously, without disrupting equipment use.
The result
Continuous Data Without Stopping the Fleet
The streamlined approach helps protect each operator and informs company-wide strategy: trend analysis, targeted maintenance, and data-backed decisions that raise safety standards across all of Drummond's mining sites. Real-time exposure data helps Drummond:
- Validate cabin filtration: see whether the filters are doing their job.
- Keep the fleet working: monitoring runs while the equipment does.
- Catch spikes as they happen: a critical spike in exposure raises an alert.
- Simplify compliance: occupational health and safety records come from the same data.
How cabin monitoring is set up across a fleet, and the ISO 23875 framework for operator enclosures, are covered on cabin air quality monitoring.
Platform used
From Cabin Readings to Fleet Decisions
Every Aethair PRO reports into the Aethair Platform, where the alerts and the compliance reports come from.
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