Title XVIII — LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
10 chapters · 596 sections in this title.
§ 293.190 RSMo Accident reports, investigation, powers of inspector — failure to report,
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293.190. Accident reports, investigation, powers of inspector — failure to report, penalty. — Whenever loss of life or serious personal injury shall occur by reason of any explosion or of any accident whatsoever, in or about any mine, it shall be the duty of the person having cha…
§ 293.200 RSMo Shaft coal mine outlets and escapement shaft requirements — penalty
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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 each mine at least t…
§ 293.210 RSMo Shaft coal mines, ventilation requirements
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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…
§ 293.220 RSMo Daily examination of coal mines generating explosive gas, record
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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 …
§ 293.230 RSMo Experienced coal miner to handle explosives or gases
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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…
§ 293.240 RSMo Blasting cartridge requirements
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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 exce…
§ 293.250 RSMo Violation of coal mining safety laws, penalty
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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 shal…
§ 293.260 RSMo Explosive strongbox required — employment of shot firers, duties — penalty
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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 a …
§ 293.270 RSMo Storage of over daily supply of explosives in mine prohibited
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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 nitroglycer…
§ 293.280 RSMo Location of explosive storage magazines, ventilation
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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 …
§ 293.290 RSMo Detonators or caps not kept in magazine in coal mine
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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)
§ 293.300 RSMo Explosives not to be prepared in storage magazine
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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 prepar…
§ 293.310 RSMo Violations of law as to explosive storage, penalty
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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, …
§ 293.320 RSMo Bore holes required, when, where
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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 mine and p…
§ 293.330 RSMo Signaling and hoisting devices in shaft, safety requirements
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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 …
§ 293.340 RSMo Coal mines with twenty-five miners, signalmen required — hoisting cages
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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 compete…
§ 293.350 RSMo Hoisting equipment, operating requirements (coal mines)
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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 per…
§ 293.360 RSMo Inspection of hoisting equipment, records — penalty (coal mines)
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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 be…
§ 293.370 RSMo State inspector to post statement of mine condition and hoisting rules
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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 o…
§ 293.380 RSMo Coal mine operated, how — abandoned workrooms sealed, penalty
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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 be prosecuted in the …
§ 293.390 RSMo Standards for roof control — supply of materials required (coal mines)
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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…
§ 293.400 RSMo Coal dust controls
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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 methods shall …
§ 293.410 RSMo Welding and cutting operations, ventilation, rock-dusting
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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, per…
§ 293.420 RSMo Weighing regulations where coal miners paid by weight
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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 t…
§ 293.430 RSMo State inspectors to check scales — refusal to allow test and fraudulent
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293.430. State inspectors to check scales — refusal to allow test and fraudulent weighing, penalties. — 1. The division of mine inspection is the inspector of weights and measures at all coal mines in this state, and all inspectors thereof are authorized, empowered and directed t…
§ 293.440 RSMo Weighing laws apply to "loaders", when
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293.440. Weighing laws apply to "loaders", when. — The manner of weighing, as herein provided for, shall apply to the class of workers in mines known as "loaders", engaged in mines wherein the mining is done by machinery, whenever the workmen are under contract to load coal by th…
§ 293.450 RSMo Coal miners to be brought to surface for lunch period of hour, penalty
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293.450. Coal miners to be brought to surface for lunch period of hour, penalty. — 1. On and after the passage and taking effect of this section all owners, lessees and operators of any coal mine in this state, the work of which is located below the surface of the ground, entranc…
§ 293.460 RSMo Coal miner to prove qualifications before working alone — penalty
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293.460. Coal miner to prove qualifications before working alone — penalty. — Any person desiring to perform the work of a coal miner and for himself to conduct room, entry or other underground mining in coal mines of this state, shall, before being permitted to engage in such wo…
§ 293.470 RSMo Division to close coal mine, when — penalty
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293.470. Division to close coal mine, when — penalty. — The director of the division of mine inspection and his assistants shall have the power, and it is hereby made their duty, to stop the operation of and close any coal mine or part thereof where poisonous damps exist, where r…
§ 293.480 RSMo Coal miners paid wages, when — penalty
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293.480. Coal miners paid wages, when — penalty. — 1. All persons or corporations engaged in or operating any coal mines in this state shall pay their employees once in every fifteen days in lawful money of the United States, and at no payday shall there be withheld any of the ea…
§ 293.490 RSMo Coal miner's lien for wages
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293.490. Coal miner's lien for wages. — All employees of coal mines have, as security for work performed, a lien upon all property of the person owning, constructing or operating the mine, used in construction or operation, including real estate, building, machinery, and all othe…
§ 293.500 RSMo Applicability of sections 293.200 to 293.490
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293.500. Applicability of sections 293.200 to 293.490. — The provisions of sections 293.200 through 293.490 are applicable only to coal mines. -------- (L. 1959 S.B. 188 § 55)
§ 293.510 RSMo Dangerous mines to be closed by state, expenses
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293.510. Dangerous mines to be closed by state, expenses. — When any mine except a coal mine is so operated that, in the opinion of the mine inspector, there is imminent danger to the lives, health or safety of the miners or employees, the inspector shall at once instruct the per…
§ 293.520 RSMo Experience required for miners, except trainees
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293.520. Experience required for miners, except trainees. — No person is permitted to engage in underground mining operations, except coal mining, for himself or for another unless he is to be employed by an operator as a trainee or to work under the supervision of an experienced…
§ 293.530 RSMo Notice of opening and abandonment of mines — abandoned mines to be sealed
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293.530. Notice of opening and abandonment of mines — abandoned mines to be sealed. — 1. No person is permitted to open up new mines or mining property, unless he has reported his intention to the director, together with such other pertinent information as the director may requir…
§ 293.540 RSMo Outlets may be required, when — location of shafts
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293.540. Outlets may be required, when — location of shafts. — After a reasonable time has been allowed for drifting and development operations, the director may require that a noncoal mine operating through either a shaft, slope, or drift, have not less than two adequate and acc…
§ 293.550 RSMo Ventilation of mines
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293.550. Ventilation of mines. — 1. The operator of every underground mine except coal mines shall provide and maintain an air current sufficient to remove smoke and noxious gases and to insure the health and safety of every employee. 2. The ventilation required by this section s…
§ 293.560 RSMo State inspections for health safety — procedure when ventilation inadequate
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293.560. State inspections for health safety — procedure when ventilation inadequate. — The director or state mine inspectors are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to thoroughly inspect all underground excavations in all mines other than coal, as often as the director of …
§ 293.570 RSMo State inspection for dust — waterlines to be installed, when, sprinkling
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293.570. State inspection for dust — waterlines to be installed, when, sprinkling. — The director of the division of mine inspection and the inspectors are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to thoroughly inspect all underground excavations in all mines other than coal min…
§ 293.580 RSMo Explosives, storage, handling and use
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293.580. Explosives, storage, handling and use. — 1. When used in or about mines other than coal mines, explosives and detonators shall be stored in separate surface magazines reasonably bulletproof and adequately constructed of incombustible material, with no metal exposed insid…
§ 293.590 RSMo Hoisting equipment and operating regulations
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293.590. Hoisting equipment and operating regulations. — 1. A qualified hoisting engineer shall be on duty continuously when men are underground at noncoal mines where men are transported by hoists. Hoists used for handling men shall be equipped with overspeed, overtravel and aut…
§ 293.600 RSMo Director may require crossheads in shaft sinking operations
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293.600. Director may require crossheads in shaft sinking operations. — When necessary in shaft sinking operations, the director of the division of mine inspection shall order crossheads attached to the rope for the purpose of guiding the descent or ascent of the bucket or cage i…
§ 293.610 RSMo Applicability of sections 293.510 to 293.600
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293.610. Applicability of sections 293.510 to 293.600. — The provisions of sections 293.510 through 293.600 shall apply to all mines except coal mines. -------- (L. 1959 S.B. 188 § 65)
§ 293.620 RSMo Caves, inspection, to provide map — inspection fees
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293.620. Caves, inspection, to provide map — inspection fees. — 1. The division of mine inspection, in addition to other duties provided by law, is authorized and directed to inspect at least once a year all caves in the state held open to the public, to make rules and regulation…
§ 293.630 RSMo Rules and regulations
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293.630. Rules and regulations. — The director shall make and publish necessary rules and regulations which shall become effective only on approval by the labor and industrial relations commission as provided in section 286.060. -------- (L. 1959 S.B. 188 § 3)
§ 293.640 RSMo Inspectors and employees — appointment, salaries
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293.640. Inspectors and employees — appointment, salaries. — 1. The director shall appoint two coal mine inspectors and four noncoal mine inspectors, each of whom shall have had at least five years' experience and one year of practical mine safety training in the type of mining f…
§ 293.650 RSMo Expenses of director and inspectors
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293.650. Expenses of director and inspectors. — The director and mine inspectors shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses including office and clerical expenses for the division which together with all salaries shall be paid out of the general revenue and the mine inspectio…
§ 293.660 RSMo Inspection of mines, when — rights and duties of inspectors — reports
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293.660. Inspection of mines, when — rights and duties of inspectors — reports. — 1. Each mine in this state shall be examined by a mine inspector at least twice in every calendar year, and more frequently if it is deemed necessary or desirable in order to enforce the provisions …
§ 293.670 RSMo Complaints as to dangerous conditions, procedure
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293.670. Complaints as to dangerous conditions, procedure. — 1. Whenever the inspectors of mines receive a complaint in writing, signed by one or more persons, employed in a mine, or the certified collective bargaining agent of the employees, setting forth that the mine in which …
§ 293.680 RSMo Judicial review of orders of director — effect of filing on order, procedure
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293.680. Judicial review of orders of director — effect of filing on order, procedure. — 1. Any person may appeal to the circuit court of the county in which the mine is situated or to the circuit court of Cole County, at the option of appellant, from any order, rule, regulation …