1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

cxli MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Off. Doc.
requires medical or surgical treatment, he shall see that said injured
person receives the same, and in case of inability of such injured
person to pay therefor the same shall be borne by the county. The
mine foreman shall report monthly to the mine inspector of the district
on blanks furnished by said inspector for that purpose, all
accidents
resulting in personal injury.
Eule 41. No unauthorized person shall enter the mine without permission
from the superintendent or mine foreman.
Rule 42. No person in a state of intoxication shall be allowed to go
into or loiter about the mine.
Rule 43. All employes shall inform the mine foreman or his assistant
of the unsafe condition of any working place, hauling roads
or traveling ways, or of damage to doors, brattices or stoppings, or of
obstructions in the air passages when known to them.
Rule 44.
No person shall be employed to blast coal, rock or slate,
unless the mine foreman is satisfied that such a person is qualified by
experience to perform the work with ordinary care.
Rule 45. The mine superintendent or mine foreman shall cause to
be constructed safety blocks or some other device for the purpose of
preventing cars from falling into the shaft, or running away on
slopes or incline planes; and safety switches, drop logs or other device
shall be used on all slopes and incline planes; and said safety
blocks, safety switches or other device must be maintained in good
working order.
Rule 46. Every workman employed in the mine shall examine his
working place before commencing work, and after any stoppage of
work during the shift he shall repeat such examination.
Rule 47. No person shall be allowed to travel on foot to or from
his work on any incline plane, dilly or locomotive roads, when other
good roads are provided for that purpose.
Rule 48. Any employe or other person who shall wilfully deface,
pull down or destroy any notice board, danger signal, general or
special rules or mining laws, shall be prosecuted as provided for in
section two, article twenty-one of this act.
Rule 49. No powder or high explosive shall be taken into the min.;
in greater quantities than required for use in one shift, unless such
quantity be less than five pounds, and all powder shall be carried into
the mine in metallic canisters.
Rule 50. Powder in quantities exceeding twenty-five pounds, or
other explosives in quantities exceeding ten pounds, shall not be
stored in an} tipple or any weighing office, nor where workmen have
business to visit, and no naked lights shall be used while weighing
and giving out powder.
Rule 51. All persons except those duly authorized, are forbidden
to meddle or tamper in any way with any electric or signal wires in or
about the mines.