Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.200. Shaft coal mine outlets and escapement shaft requirements — penalty. — 1. It is unlawful for any owner, agent or operator of any coal mine worked by shaft to employ or permit any person to work therein unless there are to every seam of coal worked in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.210. Shaft coal mines, ventilation requirements. — 1. The owner, agent or operator of every coal mine, whether operated by shaft, slope or drift, shall provide and maintain for every such mine a good and sufficient amount of ventilation for such men as may be employed therein, the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.220. Daily examination of coal mines generating explosive gas, record. — All coal mines generating explosive gas in which men are employed shall be examined every morning by a practical and duly authorized agent of the proprietor, to determine whether there are any dangerous accumulations of gas, or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.230. Experienced coal miner to handle explosives or gases. — It shall be unlawful for any operator or agent of a coal mine to employ persons underground whose duties may involve contact with inflammable gases, or the handling of explosives, who have not had experience in such duties, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.240. Blasting cartridge requirements. — It shall be unlawful for coal miners in any mine to charge a blasting hole with loose powder, or otherwise than with a properly constructed cartridge; and in dry and dusty mines, it shall be unlawful to load cartridges in the mines except […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.250. Violation of coal mining safety laws, penalty. — Every owner, agent or operator of any coal mine in this state, employing five or more persons, violating any of the provisions of sections 293.210 to 293.240, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.260. Explosive strongbox required — employment of shot firers, duties — penalty. — 1. All owners, agents or operators of coal mines shall require of all miners or other persons employed in and about a mine, using gun or blasting powder or other explosives, to have and keep […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.270. Storage of over daily supply of explosives in mine prohibited. — No person, partnership or corporation, nor any agent of any such person, partnership or corporation, engaged in mining for coal, shall permit any blasting powder or any high explosive containing nitroglycerine, to be stored in any […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.280. Location of explosive storage magazines, ventilation. — All blasting powder, or other high explosive, in excess of the temporary supply required in such mine as designated in section 293.270, shall be stored in a magazine, placed not less than three hundred feet distant from any shaft, habitation, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.290. Detonators or caps not kept in magazine in coal mine. — No detonators or explosive caps shall be kept in the same magazine in a coal mine with any blasting powder or other high explosive. ——– (L. 1959 S.B. 188 § 32)
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.300. Explosives not to be prepared in storage magazine. — No person, partnership or corporation, nor any agent of any such person, partnership or corporation engaged in mining as defined in section 293.270, shall permit any blasting powder or other high explosive to be prepared for firing or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.310. Violations of law as to explosive storage, penalty. — Any person, partnership or corporation, or the agent of any such person, partnership or corporation, who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 293.270 to 293.300, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.320. Bore holes required, when, where. — The owner, agent or operator of any coal mine shall provide that bore holes shall be kept twenty feet in advance of the face of each and every working place, and, if necessary, on both sides, when driving toward an abandoned […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.330. Signaling and hoisting devices in shaft, safety requirements. — The owner, agent or operator of every coal mine operated by shaft shall provide suitable means of signaling between the bottom and the top thereof, and shall also provide safe means of hoisting and lowering persons in a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.340. Coal mines with twenty-five miners, signalmen required — hoisting cages furnished, when — penalty. — 1. The owner, agent or operator of all coal mines employing twenty-five or more men, shall cause a competent person to be stationed at the top of the shaft, and a competent […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.350. Hoisting equipment, operating requirements (coal mines). — No owner, agent or operator of any coal mine operated by shaft or slope shall place in charge of any engine whereby men are lowered into or hoisted out of the mines any but an experienced, competent and sober person […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.360. Inspection of hoisting equipment, records — penalty (coal mines). — 1. Every owner or operator, or the agent of such owner or operator of any coal mine in this state, who shall employ twenty-five or more miners or mine laborers, where any mechanical device is or shall […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.370. State inspector to post statement of mine condition and hoisting rules (coal mines). — The director of the division of mine inspection shall post up in some conspicuous place at the top of each coal mine visited and inspected by him, a plain statement of the conditions […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.380. Coal mine operated, how — abandoned workrooms sealed, penalty. — 1. The owner, agent or operator of any coal mine in this state, employing five or more persons, if said mine is worked on the room and pillar plan, shall cause the work in such mine to […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.390. Standards for roof control — supply of materials required (coal mines). — 1. The operator of every coal mine shall compile or have compiled a set of minimum standards for systematic roof control suitable to the roof conditions and mining system of his mine. After written approval […]
