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...The person in charge of trips shall warn persons forbidden to ride on the locomotive or cars, and shall not permit such persons to ride on locomotives or cars contrary to this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1563., and 1565. of the Revised Code.

...the trip. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...n points. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...ve communication system by which aid or assistance can be obtained promptly. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...is by vertical shaft in which cages or elevators are used as a means of hoisting persons employed in a mine, and the power for operating same is derived from but one source, the owner, lessee, or agent shall provide and keep on hand a suitable windlass capable of hoisting persons from the mine, for use in the event of an accident to the hoisting apparatus or the power by which the same is operated. No operator of a ...

... slope, shall put only experienced, competent, and sober persons in charge of an engine used for lowering into or hoisting out of such mine persons employed therein. No owner, lessee, agent, or operator of a mine shall violate this section.

...herein shall be kept available at all times to persons employed in such mine. When such appliances in any shaft are rendered unavailable, the same shall be restored without delay. No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

... Persons may be hoisted at such other times as will not interfere with the hoisting of coal or other products. No person shall be lowered into or hoisted out of a mine with powder, explosives, tools, or other material on any cage, in the same shaft, and no person shall be lowered or hoisted in a vertical shaft in a mine car. When the vertical shaft is less than fifty feet in depth and a stairway, approved by the dep...

...rovide and maintain a metal tube, suitable for conversation between persons, connecting the engine room with the top and bottom of such shaft. The cages operated in said shaft shall have an approved safety catch, a sufficient cover, and rings or other adequate handholds for the accommodation of the number of persons permitted on the cage. Such cages shall be protected on each side by a boiler plate not less than one-...

...ntact with other electric conductors, whether insulated or not. Bells, wires, insulators, contact-makers, and other apparatus used in connection with electric signaling underground, shall be of substantial and reliable construction, and be erected in such a manner as to reduce failures or false signals to a minimum. In any mine, signal circuits for operating lamps or other signal devices at potentials exceeding twe...

...o operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...o operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...sting pressure shall be at least four times the water pressure at the valve to the hose inlet with the valve closed; the maximum water pressure in the hose nozzle shall not exceed one hundred pounds per square inch, gauge. However, fire hose installed for use in underground coal mines prior to December 30, 1970, shall be mildew-proof and have a bursting pressure at least four times the water pressure at the valve to ...

...s by the state. Whenever, after August 26, 1949, the surface of a natural deposit of coal is exposed by mining operations, the chief may order the owner, lessee, or agent of the mine at which such exposure occurs to cover such exposed surface with earth or other noncombustible material if, in the judgment of the chief, such covering is necessary to prevent a fire in the coal that would endanger life or property. Suc...

...o operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...deputy mine inspector, or incandescent electric light, at such points in the mine as are necessary, including at the top of extreme grades and in underground stations where machinery is installed. No open light shall be used for fixed or stationary purposes, and no coal oil or kerosene lamp or lanterns shall be used in a mine. No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...use not less than one approved flame safety lamp, other approved methane detector, or other approved device capable of detecting methane gas in equivalent quantities as a flame safety lamp, for each fifty men employed in said mine, and upon the order of the deputy mine inspector, shall provide such additional flame safety lamps or approved methane detectors as are required to meet probable emergency. This section d...

...or vacuum of the main air current installed in such mine. A record of the readings of such gauge shall be kept in a book which shall be accessible to the deputy mine inspector and all of such records of readings shall be kept so accessible for not less than one year. No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...er such arrangements to provide medical assistance and transportation at the mine. The operator of an underground mine shall provide a vehicular mode of transportation that is equipped to handle stretchers to transport injured miners underground in a manner that minimizes shock. Such vehicle shall be accessible within the lesser of thirty minutes or the time needed to render first aid and medical attention, secure th...

...No person shall place refuse in or obstruct any airway or break-through used as an airway.

...Each employee of a mine shall go to and from his place of duty by the traveling ways provided. He shall not travel around the mine, or the buildings, tracks, or machinery connected therewith, where duty does not require, and when not on duty, he shall not loiter at, in, or around the mine, or the buildings, tracks, or machinery connected therewith.

...lines or tie-off lines that the chief determines are necessary. (D) No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section or rules adopted under it.

...d coal mine or any underground gaseous metal or nonmetal mine. Smoking in nongaseous metal and nonmetal underground mines or in or about surface structures of any mine shall be restricted to places where it will not cause a fire or hazard.

...s, or machinery connected therewith, while under the influence of intoxicants. No person shall use, carry, or have in his possession any intoxicants at, in, or around a mine, or the buildings, tracks, or machinery connected therewith.

...in and about a mine shall exercise discretion in wearing such clothes as will protect him from injury and minimize the danger of getting clothing caught in machinery or other places.