Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article 19 - Escapements

• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.01
  Every coal mine in this State, whether worked by shaft, slope or drift, shall be provided and maintained, in addition to the hoisting shaft...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.02
  In mines sunk after July 1, 1911, the first escapement shaft shall be separated from the main shaft by such extent of natural strata...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.03
  It is unlawful to employ underground, at any one time, more men than, in the judgment of the State mine inspector, are necessary to...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.04
  The time allowed for completing such escapement shaft or making such connections with an adjacent mine, as is required by the terms of this...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.05
  The escapement shaft at every mine opened after the passage of this Act shall be equipped with a substantial stairway, set at an angle...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.06
  In all coal mines more than 200 feet in depth, and opened on or after July 1, 1919, the escapement shaft shall be equipped...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.07
  If any escapement shaft, on July 1, 1911, is equipped with a cage for hoisting men, such shaft, cage and all equipment used in...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.08
  Where an escapement way is connected to a compartment in which coal is hoisted in such manner that men using the escapement way are...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.09
  The escapement shaft or opening or communication with a contiguous mine shall be constructed in connection with every seam of coal working in such...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.10
  Mine openings at isolated locations, where there is danger of fire entering the mine, shall have adequate protection against surface fires entering the mine....
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.11
  Travelable passageways; obstructions; ventilation of escape ways. There shall be at least two travelable passageways, to be designated as escape ways, from each working section...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.12
  If a designated escape way is a slope of not less than 20 degrees nor more than 45 degrees, it shall be equipped with...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.13
  If upon examination any obstructions to the free passage of men are found in the escape ways or shafts leading thereto or shafts and...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.14
  When operators of adjacent mines have, by agreement, established underground communications between said mines as an escapement outlet for the men employed in both,...
• Illinois Coal Mining Act. - 225 ILCS 705, Section 19.15
  When such communication has once been established between contiguous mines, the operator of either shall not close the same without the consent of the...

Last modified: February 18, 2015