cave-ins
Mines' structural failures
Cave-ins is the plural of cave-in, which refers to the collapse of an underground structure such as a mine, tunnel, or cavern, or the site where such a collapse has occurred.
The term extends to any sudden inward collapse: The roof showed signs of potential cave-ins after the heavy snowfall.
Figuratively, a cave-in describes someone yielding to pressure or demands after initially resisting: The administration's cave-in on the policy angered supporters.
Enclosed underground route
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- mineOre excavation site
- roofBuilding's protective top
- rubbleBroken building fragments
debris · trapped · burial · suffocation · rescue · structural · support · failure
Dread of enclosed areas
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- trappedUnable to escape
- suffocationFatal lack of air
- darknessTotal absence of light
helplessness · terror · dread · anxiety · burial · crushing · entombment · nightmare
Underground collapse crater
- subsidenceGradual ground sinking
- karstEroded soluble rock terrain
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
erosion · groundwater · aquifer · void · chamber · bedrock · sediment · fissure
Narrow vertical passage
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- minerOne who excavates ore
- trappedUnable to escape
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
extraction · underground · rescue · ventilation · shoring · timbers · explosion · methane
Disastrous or sorrowful event
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- rescueSave from harm
- trappedUnable to escape
- survivorsThose still alive after
fatalities · casualties · relief · aftermath · evacuation · search · recovery · grief
tunnel
Enclosed underground route
rubble · debris · trapped · burial · suffocation · rescue · structural · support · failure · subsidence
claustrophobia
Dread of enclosed areas
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- trappedUnable to escape
- suffocationFatal lack of air
darkness · helplessness · terror · dread · anxiety · burial · crushing · entombment · nightmare · survival
sinkhole
Underground collapse crater
- subsidenceGradual ground sinking
- karstEroded soluble rock terrain
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
underground · erosion · groundwater · aquifer · void · chamber · bedrock · sediment · fissure · subterranean
shaft
Narrow vertical passage
coal · extraction · underground · rescue · ventilation · shoring · timbers · explosion · methane · canary
tragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
survivors · fatalities · casualties · relief · aftermath · evacuation · search · recovery · grief · mourning
- mine safetymine safety, hard hat, hard hats, gas detectors, coal dust
- Mining Damagetailings, mine tailings, toxic runoff, coal ash, slag
- mine subsidencesinkholes, surface cracks
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- Coal Miningcoal mines, miners, coal seam, coal miners, underground mines
cave-insbuttressing
Supporting from the side
stabilization · bracing · fortification · underpinning · soundness
cave-inseruptions
Sudden forceful discharges
upheavals · blowouts · explosions · bulging · protrusions
cave-insholdouts
Those refusing to yield
resistance · defiance · digging in · steadfastness · refusals
cave, cavity, excavate, concave, cavern, excavation, caved, excavator, cavernous