Arkansas Code Title 11, Chapter 7, Subchapter 3 - Regulation of Operation

• § 11-7-301 - Penalty for Endangering Mine or Miners.
  (a) Any miner, workman, or other person who shall knowingly injure any water gauge, barometer, air course, or brattice or shall obstruct or throw...
• § 11-7-302 - Right of Action for Death or Injury.
  (a) For any injury to persons or property occasioned by willful violation of this chapter or willful failure to comply with any of its...
• § 11-7-303 - Map or Plan of Mine.
  (a) (1) The owner, agent, or operator of each and every coal mine in this state shall make, or cause to be made, an...
• § 11-7-304 - Mine Openings and Escapeways.
  (a) (1) Every underground mine shall have at least two (2) separate surface openings. (2) Main slope and drift openings shall be separated by...
• § 11-7-305 - Ventilation Generally.
  (a) The owner, agent, or operator of every mine, whether operated by shaft, slope, or drift, shall provide and maintain for every mine a...
• § 11-7-306 - Regulation of Air Currents.
  (a) Air regulation of all slopes, drifts, or shafts used for hoisting or hauling coal shall be made at the intake of air into...
• § 11-7-307 - Manner of Working Room and Pillar Plan Mine.
  (a) The owner, agent, lessee, or operator of any coal mine in this state, if the mine is worked on the room and pillar...
• § 11-7-308 - Bore Holes.
  The owner, agent, or operator shall provide that a bore hole shall be kept twenty feet (20') in advance of the face of each...
• § 11-7-309 - Means of Signaling -- Cages.
  (a) The owner, agent, or operator of every mine operated by shaft shall provide suitable means for signaling between the bottom and top thereof.(b)...
• § 11-7-310 - Gates, Bonnets, and Other Safety Measures.
  (a) The owner, agent, or operator shall cause every landing on a level or above the surface of the ground and the entrance to...
• § 11-7-311 - Prop Timbers.
  The owner, agent, or operator of any mine shall keep a sufficient amount of timber when required to be used as props, so that...
• § 11-7-312 - Medical and Emergency Supplies.
  (a) There shall be kept in the engine room or at some nearby and convenient place at each mine a supply of oils, bandages,...
• § 11-7-313 - Washroom and Lockers.
  (a) It shall be the duty of every owner or lessee, its officers and agents, or other persons having jurisdiction or direction of any...
• § 11-7-314 - Use of Water on Cutter Bars and Jackhammers Required.
  (a) In order to promote safety in coal mines by eliminating the hazards of coal and rock dust in coal mines, it is made...
• § 11-7-315 - Daily Inspection by Fire Boss.
  (a) In all mines where a fire boss is employed, all working places and worked-out places adjacent to working places shall be examined, when...
• § 11-7-316 - High Water Danger.
  (a) Whenever and wherever a coal mine in this state becomes dangerous from high water or overflow of streams adjacent thereto, whereby the lives...
• § 11-7-317 - Reports of Accidents.
  (a) Whenever loss of life or serious personal injury shall occur by reason of any explosion or of any accident whatever in or about...
• § 11-7-318 - Age of Miners.
  No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be permitted to enter any mine to work therein.
• § 11-7-319 - Bond for Semimonthly Payment of Wages.
  (a) (1) Every person, firm, association, or corporation engaged in mining or producing coal or in the operation of a coal mine or coal...

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