Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of ...

INSPECTORS OP MINES. 51
Sect. 7. 9. Have you aa adequate amount of ventilation circulating in
splits in each v/orking district of your mine, as required
by law ?
10. What mode or apparatus do you use to produce ventilation
in your mine in summer and winter ?
Sect. 8. 11. Have j^ou a competent practical boss miner and firemen who
do their duty to your miners and mines properly ?
Sect. 9. 12. Have you to use safety lamps—in what condition kept, and
if kept locked for better safety ?
13. Does your mines generate noxious gases ?
14. Do you need bore holes in certain places to protect miners'
from the dangers of lodgement water or gas ?
Sect. 10. 15. Have you in use, or need of speaking tubes, in shaft or slope,
for better safety of men ?
16. Have you secured your drums by brakes, horns and flanges,
with proper machinery attached, to keep the ropes in safe
position ?
17. Have you employed persons under twelve years of ago to
work in your mines ?
Sect. 11. 18. Have you provided careful, trustworthy, competent and intelligent
engineers and firemen to handle your engines and
machinery with care ?
19. Have you permitted persons not engineers in good practice
to meddle with engines and machinery in the place of competent
engineers ?
Sect. 12. 20. Have you neglected to notify inspector and coroner in cases
of death or accidents to your miners or hands ?
Sect. 13. 21. Have you had your boilers examed, as requii-ed by law, by
competent persons, and report of their condition recorded ?
22. Have you wholly secured all dangerous places about your
establishment to prevent accidents ?
Sect. 14. 23. Have you furnished intelligent maps and plans, showing the
situation of buildings, roads, streams, and how the same
are secured from danger ?
24. Have you ascertained the complement of air traversing gangway
and reported the same monthly ?
Inspector's Requirements.
1. Have you sufficient covers on cages or carriages, if in shaft, to secure
men from injury or death ?
2. Have you a spreader-chain on crosshead attached to slope and shaft
ropes sufficiently safe ?
3. Have you safety catches in use ? If so, have you proved them to be
secure and good ?
4. Have you good ropes or chains in use and adequate brake-power to
command them in case of accident to machinery ?
5. Have you air-courses of sufficient section area to admit of sufficient ven-
tilation ?
6. Do you permit persons to ride on loaded wagons or cages out of your
mines when traveling roads are available 'i
7. Do you permit more than ten (10) persons to ascend and descend on
cage or wagon in slope or shaft at any time ?
8. Do you measure the quantity and motion of air in face of gangways
weekly and record the same ?
9. Do you, as manager or operator, understand your duty to your men in
case of death or injury ?