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30 U.S.C. § 878 — Hoisting and mantrips

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30 U.S.C. § 878 — Hoisting and mantrips

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**(a) Transporting of persons; required equipment and capabilities; safety catches; daily examinations; operators** Every hoist used to transport persons at a coal mine shall be equipped with overspeed, overwind, and automatic stop controls. Every hoist handling platforms, cages, or other devices used to transport persons shall be equipped with brakes capable of stopping the fully loaded platform, cage, or other device; with hoisting cable adequately strong to sustain the fully loaded platform, cage, or other device; and have a proper margin of safety. Cages, platforms, or other devices which are used to transport persons in shafts and slopes shall be equipped with safety catches or other no less effective devices approved by the Secretary that act quickly and effectively in an emergency, and such catches shall be tested at least once every two months. Hoisting equipment, including automatic elevators, that is used to transport persons shall be examined daily. Where persons are transported into, or out of, a coal mine by hoists, a qualified hoisting engineer shall be on duty while any person is underground, except that no such engineer shall be required for automatically operated cages, platforms, or elevators. **(b) Promulgation of other safeguards** Other safeguards adequate, in the judgment of an authorized representative of the Secretary, to minimize hazards with respect to transportation of men and materials shall be provided. **(c) Rated capacities; indicator for position of cage** Hoists shall have rated capacities consistent with the loads handled and the recommended safety factors of the ropes used. An accurate and reliable indicator of the position of the cage, platform, skip, bucket, or cars shall be provided. **(d) Methods for signaling between shaft stations and hoist rooms** There shall be at least two effective methods approved by the Secretary of signaling between each of the shaft stations and the hoist room, one of which shall be a telephone or speaking tube. **(e) Braking equipment for haulage cars used in underground mines** Each locomotive and haulage car used in an underground coal mine shall be equipped with automatic brakes, where space permits. Where space does not permit automatic brakes, locomotives and haulage cars shall be subject to speed reduction gear, or other similar devices approved by the Secretary which are designed to stop the locomotives and haulage cars with the proper margin of safety. **(f) Automatic couplers for haulage equipment** All haulage equipment acquired by an operator of a coal mine on or after one year after the operative date of this subchapter shall be equipped with automatic couplers which couple by impact and uncouple without the necessity of persons going between the ends of such equipment. All haulage equipment without automatic couplers in use in a mine on the operative date of this subchapter shall also be so equipped within four years after the operative date of this subchapter.

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30 U.S.C. § 801 — Technical Study Panel

**(a) Establishment** There is established a Technical Study Panel (referred to in this section as the “Panel”) which shall provide independent scientific and engineering review and recommendations with respect to the utilization of belt air and the composition and fire retardant properties of belt materials in underground coal mining. **(b) Membership** The Panel shall be composed of— (1) two individuals to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Associate Director of the Office of Mine Safety; (2) two individuals to be appointed by the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health; and (3) two individuals, one to be appointed jointly by the majority leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives and one to be appointed jointly by the minority leader of the Senate and House of Representatives, each to be appointed prior to the sine die adjournment of the second session of the 109th Congress. **(c) Qualifications** Four of the six individuals appointed to the Panel under subsection (b) shall possess a masters or doctoral level degree in mining engineering or another scientific field demonstrably related to the subject of the report. No individual appointed to the Panel shall be an employee of any coal or other mine, or of any labor organization, or of any State or Federal agency primarily responsible for regulating the mining industry. **(d) Report** (1) **In general** — Not later than 1 year after the date on which all members of the Panel are appointed under subsection (b), the Panel shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Committee

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30 U.S.C. § 811 — Congressional findings and declaration of purpose

Congress declares that— **(a)** the first priority and concern of all in the coal or other mining industry must be the health and safety of its most precious resource—the miner; **(b)** deaths and serious injuries from unsafe and unhealthful conditions and practices in the coal or other mines cause grief and suffering to the miners and to their families; **(c)** there is an urgent need to provide more effective means and measures for improving the working conditions and practices in the Nation’s coal or other mines in order to prevent death and serious physical harm, and in order to prevent occupational diseases originating in such mines; **(d)** the existence of unsafe and unhealthful conditions and practices in the Nation’s coal or other mines is a serious impediment to the future growth of the coal or other mining industry and cannot be tolerated; **(e)** the operators of such mines with the assistance of the miners have the primary responsibility to prevent the existence of such conditions and practices in such mines; **(f)** the disruption of production and the loss of income to operators and miners as a result of coal or other mine accidents or occupationally caused diseases unduly impedes and burdens commerce; and **(g)** it is the purpose of this chapter (1) to establish interim mandatory health and safety standards and to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor to develop and promulgate improved mandatory health or safety standards to protect the health and safety of the Nation’s coal or other miners; (2) to require that each operator of a coal or other mine and every miner in such mine comply with such standards; (3) to cooperate with, and provide assistance to, the States in the development and enforcement of effect

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30 U.S.C. § 845 — Mandatory health standards for underground mines; enforcement; review; purpose

**(a)** The provisions of sections 842 through 846 of this title and the applicable provisions of [section 878 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section878&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be interim mandatory health standards applicable to all underground coal mines until superseded in whole or in part by improved mandatory health standards promulgated by the Secretary under the provisions of [section 811 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section811&num=0&edition=prelim), and shall be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as any mandatory health standard promulgated under the provisions of [section 811 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section811&num=0&edition=prelim). Any orders issued in the enforcement of the interim standards set forth in this subchapter shall be subject to review as provided in subchapter I of this chapter. **(b)** Among other things, it is the purpose of this subchapter to provide, to the greatest extent possible, that the working conditions in each underground coal mine are sufficiently free of respirable dust concentrations in the mine atmosphere to permit each miner the opportunity to work underground during the period of his entire adult working life without incurring any disability from pneumoconiosis or any other occupation-related disease during or at the end of such period.

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30 U.S.C. § 878 — Definitions

Page 177 TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING § 878 appropriate to protect the safety of miners working or passing through such tunnels from cave-ins and other hazards. Such permits shall require, in accordance with a plan to be ap- proved by the Secretary, that a safety zone be established beneath and adjacent to such body of water. No plan shall be approved unless there is a minimum of cover to be determined by the Secretary, based on test holes drilled by the op- erator in a manner to be prescribed by the Sec- retary. No such permit shall be required in the case of any new working section of a mine which is located under any water resource reservoir being constructed by a Federal agency on De- cember 30, 1969, the operator of which is required by such agency to operate in a manner that ade- quately protects the safety of miners working in such section from cave-ins and other hazards. (s) Drinking water An adequate supply of potable water shall be provided for drinking purposes in the active workings of the mine, and such water shall be carried, stored, and otherwise protected in sani- tary containers. (t) Standards for prevention of explosions from nonmethane gases and for testing for accu- mulations Within one year after the operative date of this subchapter, the Secretary shall propose standards for preventing explosions from explo- sive gases other than methane and for testing for accumulations of such gases. (Pub. L. 91–173, title III, § 317, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 787; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT For the operative date of this subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (e), (f)(4), (g), (h), (k), (m), (r), and (t), see section 509 of Pub. L. 91–173, set out as an Effectiv

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