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

Ixx MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Off. Doc.
Section 9.
The owner, operator or superintendent of any coal mine
or colliery which is worked by shaft or slope, shall provide and maintain
a suitable appliance by or through which conversation can be
held by and between persons at the bottom and at the top of the
shaft or slope, and also an efficient means of signaling from the bottom
of such shaft or slope to the engineer in charge of the hoisting
engine.
Section 10. Hand rails and efficient safety catches shall be attached
to, and a sufficient cover overhead shall be provided on every
cage used for lowering or hoisting persons in any shaft.
Section 11. Wherever practicable, every cage or gun-boat used for
lowering or hoisting persons in any ?slope, shall be provided with a
proper protector, so constructed that persons, while on such cage or
gun-boat, shall not be struck by anything which may fall or roll down
said slope.
Section 12, The main link of the chain connecting the rope to the
cage, gun-boat or car in any shaft or slope, shall be made of the best
quality of iron;
be
bridle chains made of the same quality of iron shall
attached to the main link, rope or rope socket from the cross-head
of the cage or gun-boat when persons are being lowered or hoisted
thereon.
Section 18. The ropes, safety catches, links and chains shall be
carefully examined every day they are used, by a competent person
delegated for that purpose and any defects therein found, by which
life or limb may be endangered, shall be immediately remedied.
Section 14. An efficient brake shall be attached to every drum
that is used for lowering or raising persons or material in any
mine.
Section 15. Flanges or horns of sufficient dimensions to prevent
the rope from slipping off
the said drum shall be provided and properly
attached to the drum, and all machines used for lowering or
hoisting persons in mines shall be provided with an indicator to show
the position of the cage, car or gun-boat in the shaft or slope.
Section 16. Over all shafts which are being sunk or shall hereafter
be sunk, a safe and subshuitial stiucture shall be erected to
sustain the sheaves or pulleys, at a height of not less than twenty
(20) feet above Hie tipping-place, and the top of such shaft shall be
arranged in such manner that no material can fall into the shaft while
the bucket is being emptied.
Section 17. The said structure shall be erected as soon as a substantial
foundation is obtained, and in no case shall a shaft be sunk
to a depth of more than fifty (HO) feet withoni such structiirc.
Section IS.
Tf provision is niadc to land the bucket u]>on truck, the
said truck sliall be constructed in such mannei' that material cannot
fall into the shaft.