Section 19. Penalty for endangering lives of miners, or security of machinery
Any miner, workman, or other person, who shall knowingly injure any safety-lamp, water gauge, barometer, air-course, brattice, or obstruct or throw open air-ways, or carry lighted pipes or matches into places that are worked by safety-lamps, or handle or disturb any part of the machinery of the hoisting engine, or open a door and not have the same closed, whereby danger is caused in the mine, or enter any place of the mine against caution, or disobey any order given in carrying out the provisions of this act, or shall ride upon a loaded car or carriage in any shaft or slope, or on any plane in or around any of said mines, or do any other act whereby the lives or the health of persons, or the security of the mines or machinery, is endangered; or any miner, having charge of a working place in any coal mine or colliery, who shall neglect or refuse to keep the roof thereof properly propped and timbered, to prevent the falling of coal, slate or rock, every such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment and fine, at the discretion of the court. 1870, March 3, P.L. 3, Sec. 19.