The Kennedy Shelter is built by Jack Kennedy Metal Products & Buildings Inc. The Kennedy Chamber is a hard-walled shelter that can be used as a life support system during an emergency event in an underground coal mine. The Shelter is skid plate
mounted that allows it to be easily moved around a mine without concern of damaging the unit and it can support a range of 10 – 33 miners for at least 96 hours (WVOMHST, 2007). Generally, all the miners have to do is enter the shelter to start the oxygen flow. A view of the Kennedy hard-walled shelter is given in Figure 2-1 (MSHA, 2006).
