Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of ...

No. 10. MINING LAWS OP PENNSYLVANIA. ciii
Section 5.
once a week at
The mine foreman shall measure the air current at least
the inlet and outlet and at or near the faces of the
entries, and shall keep a record of such measurements. An anemometer
shall be provided for this purpose by the operator of the
mine. It shall be the further duty of the mine foreman to require
the workmen to
use locked safety lamps when and where required
by this act.
Section 6. The mine foreman shall give prompt attention to the removal
of all dangers reported to him by the fire boss or any other
person working in the mine, and in mines where a fire boss is not
employed, the said mine foreman or his assistant shall visit and examine
every working place therein at least once every alternate day
v/hile the miners of such place are or should be at work, and shall
direct that each and every working place be properly secured by
p?ops or timbers, and that no person shall be directed or permitted
to work in an unsafe place unless it be for the purpose of making it
safe: Provided, That if the owner or operator of any mine employing
a tire boss shall require the mine foreman to examine every working
place every alternate day, then it
shall be the duty of the mine foremen
to
do so.
Section 7. When the mine foreman is unable personally to carry
out all the requirements of this act as pertaining to his duties, he
shall employ a competent person or persons, not objectionable to the
operator, to act as his assistant or assistants, who shall act under
his instructions, and in all mines where fire-damp is generated the
said assistant or assitants shall possess a certificate of competency
as mine foreman or fire boss.
Section 8. A suitable record book, with printed head lines, prepared
by and approved by the mine inspector,
the same to be provided
at the expense of the Commonwealth, shall be kept at each
mine generating explosive gases, and immediately after each examination
of the mine made by the fire boss or fire bosses, a record
of the same shall be entered in said book, signed by the person or
persons making such examinations, which shall clearly state the nature
and location of any danger which he or they may have discovered,
and the fire boss or fire bosses shall immediately report such
danger and the location of the same to the mine foreman, whose
duty it shall be to remove the danger, or to cause the same to be done
forthwith as far as practicable, and the mine foreman shall also each
day "countersign all reports entered by the fire boss or fire bosses. At
all mines the mine foreman shall enter in a book provided as above
by the mine inspector, a report of the condition of the mine, signed
by himself, which shall clearly state any danger that may have come
under his observation during the day, and shall also state whether
he has a proper supply of material on hand for the safe working of
the mine, and whether all requirements of the law are strictly com-