Obstructing ventilation. Duties of trip rider. Duties of en. gineer. Signals. Who may not run engine. keep the cars under control and prevent them from running onto himself or others. SEC. 326. He shall not leave any cars standing where they may materially obstruct the ventilating current, except in case of aceident to the trip. SEC. 327. He [the trip rider] shall exercise great care in see ing that all hitchings are safe for use and see that all the trip is coupled before starting, and should he at any time see any mate rial defect in the rope, link or chain, he shall immediately remedy such defect, or, if unable to do so, he shall detain the trip and report the matter to the mine foreman. SEC. 328. It shall be the duty of the engineer to keep a careful watch over his engine, and all machinery under his charge, and see that the boilers are properly supplied with water, cleaned and inspected at proper intervals, and that the steam pressure does not exceed at any time the limit allowed by the superintendent. SEC. 329. He shall make himself acquainted with the signal codes provided for in this act. SEC. 330. He shall not allow any unauthorized person to enter the engine house, neither shall he allow any person to handle or run the engine, without the permission of the superintendent. Engine to be SEC. 331. When workmen are being raised or lowered he shall under control. take special precautions to keep the engine well under control. Locomotive SEC. 332. The locomotive engineer must keep a sharp lookout engineer. ahead of his engine and sound the whistle or alarm bell frequently when coming near the partings or landings; he must not exceed the speed allowed by the mine foreman or superintendent. He must not allow any person, except his attendants, to ride on the engine or on the full cars. Duties of fireman. Duties of fan engineer. Duties of furnace man. Keeping fire. in SEC. 333. Every fireman and other person in charge of a boiler or boilers for the generation of steam shall keep a careful watch of the same; he shall see that the steam pressure does not at any time exceed the limit allowed by the superintendent; he shall fre quently try the safety valve and shall not increase the weight on the same; he shall maintain a proper depth of water in each boiler, and if anything should happen to prevent this, he shall report the same without delay to the superintendent, or other person designated by the superintendent, and take such other action as may, under the particular circumstances, be necessary for the protection of life and preservation of property. SEC. 334. The engineer in charge of any ventilating fan must keep it running at such speed as the mine foreman directs in writing. In case of accident to the boiler or fan machinery, not requiring the immediate withdrawal of the men from the mine by reason of serious interruption of the ventilation, he shall invariably notify the mine foreman. If ordinary repairs of the fan or machinery becomes necessary, he must give timely notice to the mine foreman and await his instructions before stopping it. He shall also examine at the beginning of each shift all the fan bearings, stays and other parts, and see that they are kept in proper working order. Should it become impossible to run the fan or necessary to stop it to prevent destruction, he shall then at once stop it and notify the mine foreman immediately and give imme diate warning to persons in the mine. SEC. 335. The furnace man must attend to his duties with regularity, and in case he should be likely to be off work for any reason whatever, he must give timely notice to the mine foreman. SEC. 336. The furnace man must at all times keep a clear, brisk fire, and the fire must not be smothered with coal or slack during working hours, nor shall he allow ashes to accumulate excessively on or under the bars, or in the approaches to the furnace, and ashes shall be cooled before being removed. Obeying SEC. 337. The furnace man must promptly obey the instructions structions. of the mine foreman. Duties of SEC. 338. The hookers-on at the bottom of any slope shall be very hookers-on. careful to see that the cars are properly coupled to a rope or chain. and that the safety catch or other device is properly attached to the cars before giving the signal to the engineer. SEC. 339. The cager at the bottom of any shaft shall not attempt Duties of to withdraw the car until the cage comes to rest, and when put- cager. in its proper place before giving the signal to the engineer. SEC. 340. At every shaft or slope mine in which provision is Headman and made in this act for lowering and hoisting persons, a headman and footman. footman shall be designated by the superintendent or mine foreman, who shall be at their proper places from the time that persons begin to descend until all the persons who may be at the bottom of said shaft or slope, when quitting work, shall be hoisted; such headman and footman shall personally attend to the signals, and see that the provisions of this act in respect to lowering or hoisting persons in shafts or slopes shall be complied with. Tools not to when. SEC. 341. He [they] shall not allow any tools to be placed on the same cage with men or boys, nor on either cage when persons are be put on cage, being hoisted out of the mine or being lowered into the mine, except when for the purpose of repairing the shaft or machinery therein. The men shall place their tools in cars provided for that purpose, which car, or cars, shall be hoisted or lowered before and after the men shall have been hoisted or lowered. And he [they] shall immediately inform the mine foreman of any violation of this rule. SEC. 342. He [the footman] shall also see that no driver, or Ascent of other person, ascends the shaft with any horse or mule, unless the horse or mule. said horse or mule is secured in a suitable box, or safely penned, and only the driver in charge of said horse or mule shall accompany it in any case. SEC. 343. The topman of any slope, or incline plane, shall be very careful to close the safety block, or other device, as soon as the cars have reached the landing, so as to prevent any loose or runaway cars from descending the slope, or incline plane, and in no case shall such safety block, or other device, be withdrawn until the cars are coupled to the rope or chain, and the proper signal given. He shall carefully inspect, daily, all the machinery in and about the check house and the rope used for lowering the coal, and promptly report any defect discovered to the superintendent, and shall use great care in attaching securely the wagons or cars to the rope and carefully lower the same down the incline. He shall ring the alarm bell in case of accident, and when necessary, immediately set free to act the drop logs or safety switch. Duties of top man. SEC. 344. The topman of any shaft shall see that the springs Springs or keeps for the cage to rest upon are kept in good working order, keeps. and when taking the full car off, he must be careful that no coal or other material is allowed to fall down the shaft. ог SEC. 345. He shall be at his proper place from the time that Topman to persons begin to descend until all the persons who may be at the be on duty, bottom of said shaft or slope, when quitting work, shall be hoisted. when. Such headman and footman shall personally attend to the signals and see that the provisions of this act in respect to lowering and hoisting persons in shafts or slopes shall be complied with. SEC. 346. He [the topman] shall not allow any tools to be placed Sending down on the same cage with men or boys, nor on either cage when per- tools. sons are being lowered into the mine, except when for the purpose of repairing the shaft or the machinery therein. The men shall place their tools in cars provided for that purpose, which car or cars shall be lowered before and after the men have been lowered. SEC. 347. He shall also see that no driver, or other person, descends the shaft with any horse or mule unless the said horse or horse or mule. mule is secured in a suitable box or safely penned, and only the driver in charge of said horse or mule shall accompany it in any case. SEC. 348. If any person shall receive any injury in or about the mine and the same shall come within the knowledge of the mine H. Doc. 733, 58-2-65 Descent of Accidents. Persons excluded. Intoxication. etc. foreman, and if he shall be of opinion that the injured person requires medical, or surgical treatment, he shall see that said injured person receives the same, and in case of inability of such injured person to pay therefor the same shall be borne by the county. The mine foreman shall report monthly to the mine inspector of the district, on blanks furnished by said inspector for that purpose, all accidents resulting in personal injury. SEC. 349. No unauthorized person shall enter the mine without permission from the superintendent or mine foreman. SEC. 350. No person in a state of intoxication shall be allowed to go into or loiter about the mine. Report of in- SEC. 351. All employees shall inform the mine foreman, or his juries to doors, assistant, of the unsafe condition of any working place, hauling roads or traveling ways, or of damage to doors, brattices or stoppings, or of obstructions in the air passages when known to them. SEC. 352. No person shall be employed to blast coal, rock or slate, unless the mine foreman is satisfied that such person is qualified by experience to perform the work with ordinary care. Blasters. Safety blocks. SEC. 353. The mine superintendent, or mine foreman, shall cause to be constructed safety blocks, or some other device, for the purpose of preventing cars from falling into the shaft, or running away on slopes or incline planes; and safety switches, drop logs or other device shall be used on all slopes and incline planes; and said safety blocks, safety switches or other device must be maintained in good working order. SEC. 354. Every workman employed in the mine shall examine his working place before commencing work, and after any stoppage of work during the shift, he shall repeat such examination. SEC. 355. No person shall be allowed to travel on foot to or from his work on any incline plane, dilly or locomotive roads, when other good roads are provided for that purpose. SEC. 356. Any employee or other person who shall willfully de face, pull down or destroy any notice board, danger signal, general or special rules or mining laws, shall be prosecuted as provided for in section two, article twenty-one of this act [sec. 384]. SEC. 357. No powder or high explosive shall be taken into the mine in greater quantities than required for use in one shift. unless such quantity be less than five pounds, and all powder shall be carried into the mine in metallic canisters. SEC. 358. Powder in quantities exceeding twenty-five pounds, or other explosives in quantities exceeding ten pounds, shall not be stored in any tipple or any weighing office, nor where workmen have business to visit, and no naked lights shall be used while weighing and giving out powder. SEC. 359. All persons, except those duly authorized, are forbidden to meddle or tamper in any way with any electric or signal wires in or about the mines. SEC. 360. No greater number of persons shall be hoisted or lowered at any one time in any shaft than is permitted by the mine inspector, and whenever said number of persons shall arrive at the bottom of the shaft in which persons are regularly hoisted or lowered they shall be furnished with an empty cage and be hoisted, and in cases of emergency, a less number shall be promptly hoisted. Any person or persons crowding or pushing to get on or off the cages shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 361. Each workman, when engaged, shall have his attention directed to the general and special rules by the person employing him. SEC. 362. Workmen and all other persons are expressly forbid den to commit any nuisance or throw into, deposit, or leave coals or dirt, stones or other rubbish in the air way or road so as to interfere with, pollute or hinder the air passing into and through the mine. SEC. 363. No one, except a person duly authorized by the mine foreman, shall have in his possession a key or other instrument for the purpose of unlocking any safety lamp in any mine where locked safety lamps are used. SEC. 364. Every abandoned slope, shaft, air hole or drift shall be properly fenced around or across its entrance. Abandoned slopes. SEC. 365. No safety lamps shall be intrusted to any person for Safety lamps. use in mines until he has given satisfactory evidence to the mine foreman that he understands the proper use thereof and danger of tampering with the same. Riding on SEC. 366. No person shall ride upon or against any loaded car or cage in any shaft or slope in or about any bituminous coal mine; cars. no person other than the trip runner shall be permitted to ride on empty trips on any slope, incline plane or dilly road, when the speed of the cars exceeds six miles per hour. The transportation of tools in and out of the mine shall be under the direction of the mine foreman. SEC. 367. No persons other than the drivers or trip runners shall Same subject. be permitted to ride on the full cars. SEC. 368. In mines where coal dust has accumulated to a danger Sprinkling ous extent, care shall be exercised to prevent said dust from float- coal dust. ing in the atmosphere by sprinkling it with water, or otherwise, as far as practicable. SEC. 369. In cutting of clay veins, spars or faults in entries, or Bore holes. other narrow workings going into the solid coal in mines where explosive gases are generated in dangerous quantities, a bore hole shall be kept not less than three feet in advance of the face of the work, or in advance of any shot hole drilled for a blast to be fired therein. SEC. 370, The engineer placed in charge of an engine whereby persons are hoisted out of or lowered into any mine shall be a sober and competent person and not less than twenty-one years of age. SEC. 371. When a workman is about to fire a blast he shall be careful to notify all persons who might be endangered thereby, and shall give sufficient alarm so that any person or persons approaching shall be warned of the danger. SEC. 372. In every shaft or slope where persons are hoisted or lowered by machinery as provided by this act, a topman and cager shall be appointed by the superintendent or mine foreman. SEC. 373. Whenever a workman shall open a box containing powder or other explosives, or while in any manner handling the same, he shall first place his lamp not less than five feet from such explosive and in such a position that the air current can not convey sparks to it, and he shall not smoke while handling explosives. Hoisting engineer. Firing blast. Topman and cager. Opening box of powder. SEC. 374. An accumulation of gas in mines shall not be removed Removing by brushing. gas. Gas to be ex SEC. 375. When gas is ignited by blast or otherwise, the person having charge of the place where the said gas is ignited, shall tinguished. immediately extinguish it if possible, and if unable to do so shall immediately notify the mine foreman or his assistant of the fact. Workmen must see that no gas blowers are left burning upon leaving their working places. SEC. 376. All ventilating fans used at mines shall be provided with recording instruments, by which the number of revolutions or the effective ventilating pressure of the fan shall be registered, and the registration with its date for each and every day shall be kept in the office of the mine for future reference for one year from its date. SEC. 377. Where the clothing or wearing apparel of the employees becomes wet by reason of working in wet places in the mines, it shall be the duty of the operator or superintendent of each mine, at the request in writing of the mine inspector, who shall make such request upon the petition of any five miners of any one mine in the district working in the aforesaid wet places, to provide a suitable building which shall be convenient to the principal entrances of such mine for the use of the persons employed in wet places therein, for the purpose of washing themselves and changing their clothes when entering the mine and returning therefrom. The said building shall be maintained in good order and be prop Ventilating fans. Wash rooms. erly lighted and heated, and shall be provided with facilities for persons to wash. If any person or persons shall neglect or fail to comply with the provisions of this article [section], or maliciously injure or destroy or cause to be injured or destroyed the said building or any part thereof, or any of the appliances or fittings used for supplying light and heat therein, or doing [do] any act tending to the injury or destruction thereof, he or they shall be deemed guilty of an offense against this act. SEC. 378. In all shafts and slopes where persons, coal or other material are hoisted by machinery the following code of signals shall be used: One rap or whistle to hoist coal or other material. One rap or whistle to stop cage or car when in motion. Two raps or whistles to lower cage or car. Three raps or whistles when persons are to be hoisted and for engineer to signal back ready when persons are to be hoisted, after which persons shall get on the cage or car, then one rap shall be given to hoist. Four raps or whistles to turn on steam to the pumps. But a variation from the above code of signals may be used by permission of the mine inspector: Provided, That in any such case such changed code shall be printed and posted. SEC. 379. No person or persons shall go into any old shaft or abandoned parts of the mine or into any other place which is not in actual course of working without permission from the mine foreman, nor shall they travel to and from their work except by the traveling way assigned for that purpose. SEC. 380. No steam pipes through which high pressure steam is conveyed for the purpose of driving pumps or other machinery shall be permitted on traveling or haulage ways, unless they are encased in asbestos, or some other suitable nonconducting material. or are so placed that the radiation of heat into the atmosphere of the mine will be prevented as far as possible. SEC. 381. Where a locomotive is used for the purpose of hauling coal out of a mine, the tunnel or tunnels through which the locomotive passes shall be properly ventilated and kept free as far as practicable of noxious gases, and a ventilating apparatus shall be provided by the operator to produce such ventilation when deemed necessary and practicable to do so by the mine inspector. SEC. 382. No inexperienced person shall be employed to mine out pillars unless in company with one or more experienced miners and by their consent. SEC. 383. Any person or persons whomsoever, who shall intentionally or carelessly injure any shaft, safety lamp, instrument. air course or brattice, or obstruct or throw open air ways, or take matches for any purpose, or pipes or other smokers' articles be yond any station inside of which locked safety lamps are used, or injure any part of the machinery, or open a door in the mine and not close it again immediately, or open any door which opening is forbidden, or disobey any order given in carrying out the provi sions of this act, or do any other act whatsoever whereby the lives or the health of persons or the security of the miners or the machinery is endangered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and may be punished in a manner provided for in this artice [secs. 383 to 385]. SEC. 384. The neglect or refusal to perform the duties required to be performed by any section of this act [secs. 226 to 393] by the parties therein required to perform them, or the violation of any of the provisions or requirements hereof, shall be deemed a mis demeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof in the court of quarter sessions of the county wherein the misdemeanor was com mitted, be punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 385. For any injury to person or property occasioned by any violation of this act [secs. 226 to 393], or any failure to con ply with its provisions by any owner, operator or superintendent |