(a) Any miner, workman, or other person who shall knowingly injure any water gauge, barometer, air course, or brattice or shall obstruct or throw open any airway, or carry any open flame lamp, or matches, into any mine or shall handle or disturb any part of the machinery of the hoisting engine or open a […]
(a) For any injury to persons or property occasioned by willful violation of this chapter or willful failure to comply with any of its provisions, a right of action shall accrue to any party injured for any direct damages sustained thereby. (b) Should death ensue from any injury, a cause of action shall survive in […]
(a) (1) The owner, agent, or operator of each and every coal mine in this state shall make, or cause to be made, an accurate and correct map or plan of the entire workings of the mine and every vein or deposit thereof showing the general inclination of the strata, together with any material deflections […]
(a) (1) Every underground mine shall have at least two (2) separate surface openings. (2) Main slope and drift openings shall be separated by at least twenty-five feet (25′) of natural ground in all mines opened after June 9, 1949. (3) New shafts and partitions therein, made after June 9, 1949, shall be fireproof. (4) […]
(a) The owner, agent, or operator of every mine, whether operated by shaft, slope, or drift, shall provide and maintain for every mine a sufficient amount of ventilation, to be determined by the State Mine Inspector, not less than two hundred cubic feet (200 cu. ft.) of air per man per minute, measured at the […]
(a) Air regulation of all slopes, drifts, or shafts used for hoisting or hauling coal shall be made at the intake of air into the mine, except at the option of the owner or by direction of the State Mine Inspector, and all air that goes into the mine shall be so split that not […]
(a) The owner, agent, lessee, or operator of any coal mine in this state, if the mine is worked on the room and pillar plan, shall cause the work to be prosecuted in the mine in the following manner: (1) Two (2) entries parallel with each other must be driven for the ingress and egress […]
The owner, agent, or operator shall provide that a bore hole shall be kept twenty feet (20′) in advance of the face of each and every working face and at a forty-five degree (45°) angle at intervals of eight feet (8′) on each rib of the working face when driving toward an abandoned mine or […]
(a) The owner, agent, or operator of every mine operated by shaft shall provide suitable means for signaling between the bottom and top thereof. (b) (1) He or she shall also provide safe means of hoisting and lowering persons in a cage covered with boiler iron, so as to keep safe, as far as possible, […]
(a) The owner, agent, or operator shall cause every landing on a level or above the surface of the ground and the entrance to each intermediate vein to be securely fenced by a gate and a bonnet so prepared to cover and protect the shaft and the entrances thereto. (b) The entrance to every abandoned […]
The owner, agent, or operator of any mine shall keep a sufficient amount of timber when required to be used as props, so that workmen can at all times be able to properly secure the workings from caving in. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, or operator to send down all props […]
(a) There shall be kept in the engine room or at some nearby and convenient place at each mine a supply of oils, bandages, blankets or covers for wraps, and a cot or stretcher for the use of and to be used by persons who may receive injuries in or at the mines. (b) The […]
(a) It shall be the duty of every owner or lessee, its officers and agents, or other persons having jurisdiction or direction of any coal mine within the State of Arkansas to provide a suitable building which shall be convenient to the principal entrance of the mine and equipped with individual lockers or hangers, benches […]
(a) In order to promote safety in coal mines by eliminating the hazards of coal and rock dust in coal mines, it is made the duty of every person, partnership, association, corporation, owner, operator, or lessee of any coal mine in this state to employ and use water on the cutter bars of all mining […]
(a) In all mines where a fire boss is employed, all working places and worked-out places adjacent to working places shall be examined, when it can be done, at least once a day by a competent fire boss. It shall be his or her duty to enter a report of existing conditions of the working […]
(a) Whenever and wherever a coal mine in this state becomes dangerous from high water or overflow of streams adjacent thereto, whereby the lives of miners employed therein are jeopardized by reason of the high water, it shall be the duty of the managers of the coal mine to call the miners out of the […]
(a) Whenever loss of life or serious personal injury shall occur by reason of any explosion or of any accident whatever in or about any mine, it shall be the duty of the person having charge of the mine to report the facts thereof without delay to the State Mine Inspector and, if any person […]
No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be permitted to enter any mine to work therein.
(a) (1) Every person, firm, association, or corporation engaged in mining or producing coal or in the operation of a coal mine or coal mining business and employing more than three (3) persons in connection therewith shall give a qualified bond with good and sufficient surety to the State of Arkansas, for the use and […]
