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

No. 10. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. cxxvii
Section 2. The neglect or refusal to perform the duties required to
be performed by any section of this act by the parties therein re-
([uired to perform them, or the violation of any of the provisions or
requirements hereof, shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall upon
conviction thereof in the court of quarter sessions of the county
therein the misdemeanor was committed, 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.
Section 3. That for any injury to person or property occasioned
by any violation of this act, or any failure to comply with its provisions
by an}' owner, operator or superintendent of any coal mine
or colliery, a right of action shall accrue to the party injured against
said owner or operator for any direct damages he may have sustained
thereby, and in case of loss of life by reason of such neglect
or failure aforesaid, a right of action shall accrue to the widow and
lineal heirs of the person whose life shall be lost for like recovery of
daniages for the injury they shall have sustained.
ARTICLE XXII.
Definition.
Section 1. Coal Mine. In this act the term "coal mine" includes
the shafts, slopes, adits, drifts or inclined planes connected with excavations
penetrating coal stratum or strata, which excavations are
ventilated by one general air
current or divisions thereof and connected
by one general system of mine railroads over which coal may
be delivered to one or more common points outside the mine, when
such is operated by one operator.
Excavations and Workings. The term "excavations and workings''
includes all the excavated parts of a mine, those abandoned as well
as the places actually being worked, also all underground workings
and shafts, tunnels and other ways and openings, all such shafts,
slopes, tunnels and other openings in the course of being sunk or
driven, together with all
connected with the same below the surface.
roads, appliances, machinery and material
Shaft. The term "shaft" means a vertical opening through the
strata, and which is
or may be used for the purpose of ventilation
or drainage or for hoisting men or material or both in connection
with the mining of coal.
Slope. The term "slope" means an incline way or opening used for
the same purpose as a shaft.
Operator. The term "operator" means any firm, corporation or individual
operating any coal mine or part thereof.