--- title: "Drummond Mine Case Study | Cabin Air Quality | Aethair" description: "How Drummond Company uses Aethair PRO to monitor cabin air quality across its Colombia mining fleet, for operator safety and compliance reporting." url: https://aethair.io/solutions/drummond/ --- Case study · Mining cabin air quality # Real-Time Cabin Monitoring at Drummond Mine Aethair PRO across a mining vehicle fleet in Colombia Enclosed operator cabins at Drummond Company's mining operations face diesel emissions, dust, vibration, and limited ventilation. Drummond turned to [Aethair PRO](https://aethair.io/products/pro/) for a rugged, flexible way to monitor in-cabin air in real time. It keeps operations safer and more compliant while the crews focus on mining. 1935 founded Alabama + Colombia mining operations Aethair PRO across the fleet [Schedule a call to learn more](https://calendly.com/d/ctdd-mkr-v9v/aethair-demo-website) [Cabin air quality monitoring](https://aethair.io/solutions/cabin-air/) ![A mining equipment operator seated in heavy equipment, looking at an Aethair PRO mounted beside the seat.](https://aethair.io/images/solutions/drummond/operator-cabin-aethair-pro.webp) Aethair PRO in a Drummond operator cabin The customer ## Drummond Company ![Drummond Company, Inc. logo](https://aethair.io/images/solutions/drummond/drummond-logo.webp) 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](https://drummondltd.com/en/our-company/about-us/operations-in-colombia/) ![An open-pit coal mine: a dragline bucket, a row of loading hoppers, and a yellow haul truck on dusty ground.](https://aethair.io/images/solutions/drummond/drummond-mine-site.webp) 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](https://aethair.io/products/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. [![Aethair PRO installed inside the operator cabin of heavy mining equipment, mounted on the cab pillar beside the window.](https://aethair.io/images/solutions/drummond/aethair-pro-haul-truck-cabin.webp)](https://aethair.io/products/pro/) ### [Aethair PRO](https://aethair.io/products/pro/) [Industrial monitor for indoor and outdoor sites. Built-in sensors cover the essentials, and hot-swappable gas sensor cartridges and a differential-pressure option add more.](https://aethair.io/products/pro/) [13 built-in parameters (PM2.5, PM10, noise, temperature …), plus 19 swappable cartridges (H₂S, SO₂, NO₂, CO, O₃, CH₄ and more) in 2 gas sockets, 1 MultiSense socket, and 1 expansion socket](https://aethair.io/products/pro/) [See Aethair PRO](https://aethair.io/products/pro/) ![Mining equipment dumping material into a large haul truck, with dust rising around the bed.](https://aethair.io/images/solutions/drummond/haul-truck-loading.webp) 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](https://aethair.io/standards/iso_23875/) framework for operator enclosures, are covered on [cabin air quality monitoring](https://aethair.io/solutions/cabin-air/). 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. ### [Environet](https://aethair.io/platform/environet/) Every cabin's readings in one console, with the threshold alerts that flag a critical spike in exposure. ### [Reports](https://aethair.io/platform/reports/) Compliance reporting built from the same continuous data, instead of assembled from separate devices. [The Aethair Platform](https://aethair.io/platform/)