## 1 Introduction  
The incidence of mine roof accidents in China remains significantly high compared to other types of mining accidents, presenting a substantial risk to the safety of coal mining operations [1]. In recent years, the depletion of shallow coal reserves in certain mines in northern Shaanxi has necessitated the extraction of deeper coal seams within the same coal seam clusters [2]. Due to the small spacing between the upper and lower coal seams, the impact of mining between these coal seams causes superimposition, resulting in peripheral rock movements in adjacent coal seams; this makes the stress relief zone and the concentration of the area of the superimposed impact on each other. The influence of coal pillars and the airspace areas left behind by mining in the upper seam means that the lower seam mining overburden breakage law will be different from the geological conditions of a single seam mine. The lower seam working face is prone to all kinds of pressure frame accidents during the mining process. One of the major issues that must be resolved quickly in order to produce mines in this area is the problem of mining close to the coal seam group [3; 4; 5; 6]. [PERSON] et al. [7; 8] carried out a study on the overburden collapse law and damage reduction in shallow buried coal seam group mining and concluded that the pressure of the working face is determined by the key layer of the spacing rock stratum and the disturbed roof of the upper coal seam. They also found that it has the phenomenon of large and small cycles of pressure. [PERSON] et al. [9] combined on-site measurements, simulation tests, and other means of studying the mine pressure characteristics of the working face of 31,201 in an overburdened mine and the leftover coal pillars of the Ohtai Mine. They also studied the abnormal pressure that occurs during the advancing process of the working face under the mine void zone, which may trigger the abnormal coming pressure when passing through the upper coal pillar. It was concluded that the pressure was abnormal during the advancement of the working face under the mining hollow area, and that when passing through the overlying coal pillar, the pressure was more intense and accompanied by the phenomena of coal wall flake ganging and increased subsidence of the support column, which might trigger a disaster in the pressure frame. The work of [PERSON] [10; 11; 12] and other similar simulation experiments on the repeated mining of the shallow buried close coal seam group in the Hanjia Mine showed that under repeated mining conditions, the overburden rock appeared to have off-seam fissures and longitudinal fissures, which were accompanied by the generation of super fissures. Overburden fissures undergo six dynamic cycles of generation, expansion, closure, regeneration, penetration, and re-closure in the formation of \"mine-area-face\" and \"mine-area-area-face\" structures. [PERSON] et al. [13] used hydraulic fracturing to improve inter-fracture connectivity and proposed enhancing the electrical conductivity of the fracture system to maintain its effectiveness during the production period after the fracturing. Scholars at home and abroad have carried out a lot of research on the theory of overburden rock activity and the law of mineral pressure manifestation in coal seam groups. This further explains various special mineral pressure phenomena occurring in the mining process of close coal seam groups and lays a theoretical foundation for research developing control technologies for the surrounding rock in close coal seam mining. The method of directional hydraulic fracturing to unload pressure is proposed to prevent and control roof disasters. Based on a theory from previous research, this paper examines the Yanghuopan Mine as a case study and proposes the method of directional hydraulic fracturing and decompression to prevent and deal with roof disaster accidents.