Wash rooms or houses; shower baths; ventilation
Sec. 13. (a) For the protection of the health of employes, the
operator, lessee, superintendent of, or other person in charge of every
coal mine or colliery, or other place where laborers employed are
surrounded by or affected by similar conditions as employees in coal
mines, at the request in writing of twenty (20) or more employees of
such mine or place, or in event there are less than twenty (20) men
employed, then upon the written request of one-third (1/3) of the
number of employees employed, shall provide a suitable wash room
or wash house for the use of persons employed, so that they may
change their clothing before beginning work and wash themselves
and change their clothing after working.
(b) The building or room shall be a separate building or room
from the engine or boiler room, and shall be maintained in good
order, be properly lighted and heated, and be supplied with clean
cold and warm water, and shall be provided with all necessary
facilities for persons to wash, and also provided with suitable lockers
for the safe keeping of clothing; however, the owner, operator,
lessee, superintendent of, or other person in charge of such mine or
place need not furnish soap or towels.
(c) The operator, lessee, superintendent or other person in charge
of a mine may provide suitable hangers or baskets in lieu of lockers
on which to place their clothing in wash houses, which hanger or
basket shall be so arranged with pulley and chain as to permit the
clothes to be elevated out of reach and securely fastened. Said
hangers or baskets shall be so spaced that the distance between each
shall not be less than three and one-half (3 1/2) feet from center to
center of said hanger or basket.
(d) The operator, lessee, superintendent or other person in charge
of such mine or place shall furnish a shower bath for every fifteen
(15) men washing in said wash house. The floor space for the men to
dress shall not be less than ten (10) square feet per man washing, or
using the building.
(e) Ventilation of wash house shall be so provided as to permit the
vapors and fumes thereof to readily escape. Such wash houses, when
in use, shall be fumigated once each week, or oftener if necessary.
(Formerly: Acts 1955, c.168, s.96.) As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2,
SEC.2237.
Last modified: May 27, 2006