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Section 293.400 – Coal dust controls.

Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.400. Coal dust controls. — 1. The operator of a coal mine shall not permit excessive accumulation of coal dust in any part of the mine. Where mining operations raise an excessive amount of dust, water or water with a wetting agent added to it or other effective […]

Section 293.410 – Welding and cutting operations, ventilation, rock-dusting.

Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.410. Welding and cutting operations, ventilation, rock-dusting. — In coal mines welding and cutting with electricity or flame shall be restricted to places where trolley locomotives are permitted to operate. Where it is necessary to do welding and cutting in face regions, perceptible ventilation is required, and such […]

Section 293.420 – Weighing regulations where coal miners paid by weight.

Effective – 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories 293.420. Weighing regulations where coal miners paid by weight. — 1. In all coal mines, the miners shall be paid by weight, and the operator of every coal mine shall provide and hereafter maintain suitable and accurate scales, which scales shall be examined, tested, and kept in thorough […]

Section 293.270 – Storage of over daily supply of explosives in mine prohibited.

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 […]

Section 293.280 – Location of explosive storage magazines, ventilation.

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, […]