Domestic and overseas practice indicates that comprehensive outburst prevention and control is a basic method for solving outburst problems. It mainly consists of 3 parts, outburst identification and prediction, prevention and control, and inspection of results. Outburst in the Mentougou mine, Beijing Coal Mine Administration, took place 227 times between 1947 and 1983. This paper includes identification and prediction methods for outbursts which are as follows: a coal drilling method; ways of outburst prevention and control, water injection into the coal body; the artificial cutting off of roof and unloading explosions, and the experimental process and effects.