1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

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Section 9. No person shall play with, loiter around or interfere
with any machinery in or about any mine or colliery.
Section 10. Failure to comply with the provisions of this article
shall be deemed an offense against this act.
ARTICLE VI.
Wash Houses.
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the owner, operator or superintendent
of each mine or colliery, at the request in writing of twenty
or more men emploj'ed in any of the mines, to provide a suitable
building, not an engine or boiler house, which shall be convenient to
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,
pliances or fittings used for supplying light,
or any of the ap
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
work at such mine or colliery.
the discharge of his or their
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 protection 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 afford 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