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

No. 10. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Ixxiii
the principal entrance of such mine, for the use of the persons employed
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, be properly lighted
and heated, and supplied with pure cold and warm water, 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, 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, heat and water therein,
or doing any act tending to the injury or destruction thereof, he or
they shall be deemed guilty of an offense against this act.
Section 1.
ARTICLE VII.
Ambulances and Stretchers.
The owner, operator or superintendent of every mine or
colliery, except as hereinafter provided, shall provide and keep at
such mine or colliery an ambulance and also at least two (2) stretchers,
for the purpose of conveying to their places of abode, any person or
persons who may be injured while in the discharge of his or their
work at such mine or colliery.
Section 2. The said ambulance shall be constructed upon good,
substantial and easy springs. It shall be covered and closed and
shall have windows on the sides or ends. It shall be of sufficient
size to convey at least two (2) injured persons with two (2) attendants
at one time, and shall be provided with spring mattresses or
other comfortable bedding to be placed on roller frames, together
with sufficient covering and i)rotection and convenient movement
of the injured. It shall also be provided with seats for the attendants.
The stretchers shall be constructed of such material and in
such manner as to afPord the greatest ease and comfort in the carriage
of the injured person.
Section 3. Whenever any person or persons employed in or about
a mine or colliery shall receive such injury by accident or otherwise,
while so employed, as would render him or them unable to walk to
his or their place of abode, the owner, operator or superintendent of
such mine or colliery shall immediately cause such ]»erson or persons
to be removed to his or their place of abode or to an hospital as the
case may require.
Section 4. It is provided, however, that the owner, operator or superintendent
of any mine or colliery shall be exce])ted from the requir-ements
of an ambulance, as aforesaid, if the places of abode of
all the workmen at such mine or colliery be within a radius of a half
mile from the principal entrance to such mine.