Title 25

(a) All blasting shall be done in a safe manner after all persons have been removed to a safe place. (b) All blasting should be done electrically or with detonating fuse. (c) Primers shall be made up near the working place by competent persons experienced in handling explosives. …

(a) When loading or charging blast holes with electric detonators, all electric power within an unsafe distance of the place to be blasted shall be deenergized. (b) Electric blasting with blasting machines or special circuit is permissible. With blasting machines, connections sha…

(a) Explosives, excluding blasting agents, must be unloaded in a safe manner and at a safe distance from the blasting place. (b) If several boxes of explosives, except blasting agents, are deposited near the blasting circuit, the boxes shall be stacked in an orderly manner and pr…

(a) All compressed air receivers, cylinders, or other vessels used in or around surface mining operations shall be protected by safety or relief valves to insure safe operation. All oxygen, acetylene, or similar compressed gas cylinders shall comply with manufacturer’s recommenda…

(a) At or near every pit there shall be adequate approved first aid materials as follows: One stretcher and one broken-back board, or, if a splint stretcher combination is used, it will satisfy both the stretcher and broken-back board requirement; 24 triangular bandages (15, if a…

(a) Approved sanitary toilets shall be provided and kept in a clean and sanitary condition. Such toilets should be in a central location for use by employees. (b) Potable drinking water shall be provided for all employees. (c) Individual drinking cups or bubbling fountains shall …

In case of any occurrence or change of conditions tending materially to increase the hazards of pit operations, whether or not personal injury results, a report thereof shall be promptly sent to the department by the operator. (Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §86.)

The owner, operator, or lessee of any underground coal mine in this state shall make or cause to be made by a competent engineer an accurate and exact detail map of said mine, showing the exact position of said mine in reference to the section line, which shall be connected with …

Whenever the operator of any coal mine shall neglect or refuse or for any cause not satisfactory to the department fails to furnish to it the map or plan of such mine or a copy thereof or of the extension thereto, as provided for in this article, such operator shall be deemed gui…

If the department shall find that any map or plan of any coal mine made or furnished in pursuance of the provisions of this article is materially incomplete, inaccurate, or imperfect, then it may cause a correct survey and map or plan of said mine to be made at the expense of the…

The department shall order a survey to be made between the regular survey periods of the workings of any coal mines and the results to be extended on the maps of the same and the copies thereof whenever, in its judgment, the safety of the employees, the support of the surface, an…

When any coal mine is worked out or is about to be abandoned or indefinitely closed, the operator of the same shall make or cause to be made a final survey where not already made of all parts of such mine, and the results of the same shall be duly extended on all maps of the mine…

In no case shall the workings of any coal mine be driven nearer than 15 feet to the boundary line of the coal rights of the owner of said mine, except for the purpose of establishing an underground communication between contiguous mines as provided for elsewhere in this chapter. …

Whenever the owner, operator, or lessee of any land adjacent to other land on which any coal mine is being worked shall have reason to believe that such mine is being so worked as to encroach upon his land and has been refused by the owner, operator, or manager of the mine permis…

Any owner, operator, or manager of any mine who refuses to permit an adjacent owner or lessee of land or a competent engineer selected by him to enter and inspect such mine for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same is being so worked as to encroach upon the land of such ad…

The owner or operator of each coal mine at which the miners are paid by weight shall provide such mines with suitable scales of standard make for the weighing of all coal when contracted to be weighed. (Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §97.)

All coal mined in this state contracted for payment by the ton or other measure shall be weighed or measured and the full weight or measure thereof shall be credited to the miner of such coal and 2,000 pounds shall constitute a ton of coal. (Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §98.)

In all coal mines the miners employed and working therein may furnish a check weighman or check measurer who shall at all times have full access to and the right to examine the scales, and to see all measures and weights and accounts kept of same, and shall keep an accurate accou…

The weighman and check weighman shall properly test the scales with U.S. standard test weights before coal is weighed thereon. (Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §99.)

The mine inspector, miners employed in the coal mines, and the owner of the land or persons interested in the rental and royalty of such mines shall at all times have full right of access to scales used at said mines, including tally sheets or tally books in which the weight of t…

Any person or corporation operating any coal mine in which miners or other laborers are employed to mine or cut coal for a compensation to be determined by the weight of the coal mined or cut, who fails to weigh or causes to be weighed accurately and correctly any coal so mined o…

(a) Whenever any equipment or supplies required by this chapter, including rock-dusting machines, flame safety lamps, and permissible electric equipment are unobtainable, compliance with the requirements of this chapter with respect thereto is suspended to the extent that such it…

It shall be the duty of the superintendent, mine foreman, subordinate supervisors, fire bosses, or mine examiners, and other officials to comply with and to see that others comply with the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §65.)

It shall be the duty of all employees and check weighmen to comply with this chapter and to cooperate with management and the division in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Reasonable rules and regulations of the operators for the protection of employees and preservatio…

The operator of every coal mine shall make to the department a correct report each three months of the calendar year specifying the name of the owner and operator of the mine and the location of the offices of said coal mine or mines and the quantity and kind of coal produced in …

For the purpose of making known the rules and provisions of this chapter to all persons employed in or about coal mines to which this law applies, an abstract of the law and rules shall be furnished by the department and posted up in legible character in some conspicuous place or…

Any mine inspector shall have the authority to order suspension of operations of a coal mine or pit or any part thereof when violations of this chapter are of such gravity as to be or become imminently hazardous to workmen therein. Upon correction of such hazardous conditions, th…

The decisions and orders of an inspector shall take effect as he shall specify in a written notice to the superintendent of said mine and shall not be subject to review unless within 10 days after giving such notice the owner or operator shall have appealed to the chief for such …

If the chief shall, upon review, continue or modify such order, the owner or operator may apply to the circuit court of the county wherein the mine is located for a trial de novo without jury as to whether or not (1) the order to close the mine was justified and (2) conditions in…

In addition to any other remedy, the secretary may, for persistent, continued or imminent violations of this chapter, apply for a permanent injunction. (Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §110.)

The department may be represented by its general counsel or other attorneys, district attorneys, or the Attorney General. (Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §111.)

Any unlawful act for which no other penalty is provided in this chapter shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $10.00 and not more than $500.00 or by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Acts 1949, No. 207,…