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Lone Worker SOS · Open-pit mine

Overview

A long way down.

The vehicle is the network
The SOS button
A rockfall: SOS
Radio to the vehicle
Out by satellite
Mine control
Help is moving

Comms hub on the light vehicle

Long-range radio gatewayHears every SOS button in the pit
Cellular modemUsed wherever there’s coverage
Satellite terminalUsed everywhere else

Picks the live path automaticallyHolds and forwards if all links drop

SOS panic button worn on the shirt

One press sends the SOSThat is its only function
Nothing to learnNo screen, no menus, no settings
Registered to one workerControl knows whose button it is

Long-range radio Listening

SOS buttonLV-07 gateway

SOS · button pressed
Button LW-0417
Heard by LV-07 gateway
Time-stamped

From anywhere in the pitNo towers, no phone signal

Path out of the pit chosen automatically

Radiobench → vehicle
Mobile networkvehicle → tower
Satellitevehicle → sky → cloud

No link at all? The hub holds the alarm and sends it the moment one comes back.

Vehicle radio · Mine control → Rescue 2 0:00

Case SOS-1042 logged as it happens

17:12:07SOS raisedPanic button LW-0417 pressed
17:12:08Relayed out of the pitRadio → LV-07 hub → satellite
17:12:09On the alarm consoleTeam chat, text, pagers alerted
17:12:21AcknowledgedR. Patel, controller · playbook opened
17:12:38Rescue 2 dispatchedAI ranked first · one click
17:12:45Radio briefMine control → Rescue 2, recorded
17:12:52Haul road traffic heldPlaybook item, by the controller
17:18On sceneExpected

Every event time-stampedReady for investigation and audit

TOM SHAW Alarm console Mine control · North Pit R. Patel · Controller AI assist online 17:12:09

Who pressed it

MH

Mick HollisShift fitter · Crew B · day shift

Button: LW-0417 · registered to M. Hollis
On shift: 06:00–18:00 · 11 h 12 m on
Supervisor: D. Okafor
Emergency contact: On file ✓
Medical notes: None recorded

Where it was received

Area: North Pit · north wall · bench 4
Heard by: LV-07 gateway, light vehicle parked on bench 4
Path: Radio→LV-07 hub→Satellite→Cloud
Mobile network: No coverage at this depth
Area hazards: Active face · rockfall zone

Live map · North Pit

AI assist · nearest rescue crews

Rescue 2Mine rescue · rope and stretcher kit6 min
Rescue 1Mine rescue · south workshop11 min
Medic 1Ambulance · main gate14 min

Haul road clear, no blasting scheduled. Approach bench 4 from the ramp side, away from the rockfall zone.

Response playbook 0 / 6

Acknowledge the alarm
Alert team chat, text, pagers
Dispatch the nearest rescue crew
Brief the crew by radio
Hold traffic on the haul road
Notify the shift supervisor

Notifications

Team chatEmergency channel17:12:09
Text4 recipients17:12:09
PagersEmergency response team17:12:10

TOM SHAW · Lone Worker SOS · Open-pit mine

Alone on the bench.
Never out of reach.

A few minutes in an open-pit mine, narrated: one press, long-range radio, satellite, mine control, mine rescue on the way.

Sound on · Space to pause · ← → to jump

When a lone worker presses SOS,
help is already moving.

SOS buttonon the worker
Comms hubon the light vehicle
Satellite · cellularwhichever is live
TOM SHAW SOS cloudalarm platform
Mine controlAI-assisted dispatch
Mine rescuerouted to the worker

0press

0bars of signal needed

0click to dispatch

0case, every action logged

A TOM SHAW concept walkthrough. Fictional site, people and data; illustrative only.