Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.01
Chapter does not apply to chapter 1514 activities.
Nothing in this chapter applies to activities that are permitted and regulated under Chapter 1514. of the Revised Code.
Chapter 1567 | Mine Equipment; Safety Provisions
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Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.02
Use of present machinery lawful - replacement of appliances and machinery.
In the operation of mines, mine owners, lessees, and their agents may continue to use the type of appliance and machinery owned or operated in such mines on September 2, 1941, in the manner permitted by the statutes in force on June 3, 1941, and until the mine in which such appliances or machinery are located is exhaus…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.03
Prohibited acts.
No workman or other person shall knowingly injure a water gauge, barometer, thermometer, air course, brattice, equipment, or machinery, obstruct or throw open an airway, handle or disturb any part of the machinery of the hoisting engine of a mine, open a door of a mine and neglect to close it, endanger the mine or thos…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.04
Machine runners and helpers.
Machine runners and helpers shall use care while operating mining machines. They shall warn persons not engaged in the operation of a machine of the danger in going near the machine while it is in operation, and shall not permit such persons to remain near it while such machine is in operation. They shall examine the r…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.05
Trespassing.
No person, except employees of the mine and those permitted by law, shall enter any mine or go upon the property connected therewith, unless the consent of the owner, lessee, or agent has been secured, and then only when accompanied by a guide furnished by such owner, lessee, or agent. This does not prohibit persons se…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.06
Examination of mine generating firedamp - posting or report.
No person shall enter a mine generating firedamp, which can be detected by an approved flame safety lamp, until it has been reported safe by the person making the fire boss examination as prescribed by section 1563.24 of the Revised Code. This report shall be posted on a blackboard provided for that purpose at the main…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.07
Entry beyond danger signal.
In gaseous and nongaseous mines, no person other than a mine foreman or fire boss, or owner, lessee, agent, or operator of the mine, or a representative of either accompanied by a mine foreman or fire boss, shall remove or go beyond any caution board or danger signal placed at the entrance to any working place or old w…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.08
Book of reports of mine condition and air measurements.
The mine foreperson shall each day enter plainly or have entered in ink, in a book provided for that purpose, a report of the condition of the mine, which report shall clearly state any danger that such mine foreperson has observed during the day, or any danger reported to the mine foreperson by the mine foreperson's a…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.09
Ventilation of mines.
The operator of a mine shall provide and maintain the necessary artificial means of capacity and power capable of supplying the required ventilation, and shall maintain a sufficient volume of air, not less per minute than one hundred fifty cubic feet for each person measured at the point in the mine where distribution…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.10
Ventilating fans.
Every outside fan installed after September 2, 1941, at any coal mine shall be placed at least twenty feet from the side or mouth of the shaft entry or slope with which it is connected for ventilating purposes and shall be of fireproof construction. Explosion doors shall be provided in a direct line with the mine openi…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.11
Booster and blower fans.
Booster and blower fans may be installed only with the approval of the chief of the division of mineral resources management, following the submission by the owner, lessee, or agent of a definite plan of ventilation in which it is proposed to use such fans and the reason therefor.No operator of a mine shall refuse or n…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.12
Accident to ventilating fan.
In case of an accident to a ventilating fan, or its machinery, whereby the ventilation of the mine may be seriously interrupted, the electric power shall be shut off. The mine foreman shall order the men to withdraw from the mine immediately, and he shall not allow them to return to their work until the ventilation has…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.13
Supervision of ventilating apparatus and airways.
The mine foreperson shall see that careful watch is kept over the ventilating apparatus and airways, and that the volume of the ventilating current is measured at least once each week at the inlet and outlet, at or near the face of all entries, and at that point in the mine where distribution to the various working sec…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.14
Entry into mine after interruption of ventilation.
Any person ordered by the mine foreman to withdraw from the mine because of the interruption of the ventilation shall not re-enter the mine until permission to do so has been granted after a thorough inspection has been made and the mine is found to be in a good and safe condition by the mine foreman.
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.15
Closing of ventilating doors.
Motormen, trip riders, and drivers in charge of haulage trips, passing through doors used as a means of directing the ventilation, shall see that such doors are closed promptly after the trip passes through.No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.16
Electrical system - prohibited activities.
No person shall damage or without authority alter, or make connection to, any portion of an electrical system of any mine location in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.17
Rules for use of direct current.
Where direct current is used underground in mines, the following rules shall govern:(A) In determining the voltage limit the difference in potential shall not exceed three hundred twenty-five volts measured by a meter at the nearest switchboard except with the written approval of the chief of the division of mineral re…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.18
Rules for use of alternating current.
When alternating current is used underground in mines, the following rules apply:(A) On all low voltage circuits all wires shall be protected by a switch and an automatic overload circuit breaker on each wire of the circuit, except that fuses may be substituted for circuit breakers in the case of lighting circuits and…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.19
Grounding of machines and armored cable using alternating current.
At all stripping mines where alternating current is used to operate shovels or to convert alternating current to direct current, and where the machines used for this purpose are installed on the shovel or building attached thereto, or where armored cables are used to conduct the current from the main transmission line…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.20
Electrical equipment to be grounded.
The frame and bed plates of generators, transformers, motors other than low voltage mobile motors, and all metallic cable covering other than trailing cables, shall be efficiently grounded.No owner, lessee, agent, or operator of a mine shall violate this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.21
Employment of shot firers.
In gaseous mines or portions of mines as defined by section 1563.02 of the Revised Code, a sufficient number of shot firers shall be employed. The shot firer shall charge, tamp, and fire all holes properly placed, and refuse to charge any holes not properly placed. Whenever such shot firers are required to be employed,…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.22
Use of black powder.
In all gaseous mines, as defined in section 1563.02 of the Revised Code, no black powder shall be used for blasting coal and all shots shall be fired by a shot firer.No owner, lessee, agent, or operator of a mine shall violate this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.23
Handling explosives in mines.
No employee, worker, or miner shall have in the employee's, worker's, or miner's possession inside of an underground mine more than one twenty-five pound keg or box of blasting powder or other explosives. Every person who has powder or other explosives in an underground mine shall keep the same in a wooden box suitable…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.24
Conveyance of explosives.
Blasting powder or explosives shall not be taken into or out of a mine, or moved from place to place in a mine, along any entry or haulway where there are electric wires, while the power is on such wires, except when such powder or explosive is conveyed in insulated cars, boxes, or packages.No operator, or miner shall…
Ohio Rev. Code § 1567.25
Explosives to be protected from contact with fire.
Whenever a workman is about to open a box, package, or keg, containing powder or other explosives, and while handling the same, he shall place and keep his lamp at least five feet distant from such explosives, and in such a position that the air current cannot convey sparks to it. No person shall approach nearer than f…
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