Definitions; use of gender
Sec. 1. As used in this article:
"Abandoned workings" means excavations, either caved or sealed,
that are deserted and in which further mining is not intended, and
open workings which are not ventilated and inspected regularly and
from which all material has been removed.
"Active workings" means all places in a mine that are ventilated
and inspected regularly.
"Approved" means any device or practice approved by the
director.
"Assistant mine foreman" means a person employed to assist the
mine foreman in the performance of his duties and to serve in his
place in the absence of the mine foreman.
"Auger operator" means an individual, a firm, an association, a
partnership, a limited liability company, or a corporation operating
an auger mining operation.
"Auger mining" means any mining machine operation that drills,
cuts, or removes coal from a coal seam along a surface mine highwall
without removal of the surface material on top of the coal seam.
"Blower fan" means a fan tubing used to direct part of a particular
circuit or air to the working face.
"Board" refers to the mining board established under
IC 22-10-1.5-2.
"Booster fan" means an underground fan installed in conjunction
with a main fan to increase the volume of air in one (1) or more
circuits.
"Cable" means a stranded conductor (single-conductor cable) or
a combination of conductors insulated from one another
(multiple-conductor cable).
"Circuit" means a conducting part or a system of conducting parts
through which an electric current is intended to flow.
"Circuit breaker" means a device for interrupting a circuit
between separable contacts under normal or abnormal conditions.
"Commercial mine" means any underground mine from which
coal is produced for sale, exchange, or commercial use.
"Director" means the director of the bureau of mines and mine
safety established under IC 22-1-1-4.
"Fire boss" means a properly certified person designated by the
mine foreman to examine the mine for gas and other dangers.
"Free from explosive gas" means not having any gas at levels
designated as explosive in the regulations of the Secretary of Labor
under the federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977.
"Fuse" means an overcurrent protective device with a
circuit-opening fusible member directly heated and destroyed by the
passage of overcurrent through it.
"High potential" means voltages in excess of six hundred fifty
(650) volts.
"Interested persons" means the director, authorized
representatives of the mine workers' organization having jurisdiction
at the mine, members of the mine safety committee, state and federal
coal mine inspectors, and, to the extent required by law, any other
person.
"Mine foreman" means the person charged with the responsibility
of the general supervision of the underground working of a mine and
the persons employed in the mine and for the health and safety of
those employees.
"Mine inspector" means the person appointed to assist in
administering this article.
"Operator" means an individual, firm, association, partnership,
limited liability company, or corporation operating an underground
coal mine or any part of a mine.
"Permissible" applies to any equipment, device, or explosive that
has been approved as permissible by the United States Mine Safety
and Health Administration and meets all requirements in the
applicable permissibility schedule.
"Rock dust" means pulverized limestone, dolomite, gypsum,
anhydrite, shale, talc, adobe, or other inert material, preferably light
colored, with the following characteristics:
(1) One hundred percent (100%) of which will pass through a
sieve having twenty (20) meshes per linear inch.
(2) Seventy percent (70%) or more of which will pass through
a sieve having two hundred (200) meshes per linear inch.
(3) The particles of the material when wetted and dried will not
cohere to form a cake.
(4) The particles will not be dispersed into separate particles by
a light blast of air.
(5) The material does not contain more than five percent (5%)
of combustible matter nor more than a total of five percent (5%)
of free and combined silica (SiO ).
"Shot-firer" means a properly certified person designated by the
mine foreman to perform the functions as required in this article in
connection with breaking down coal or rock.
"Substation" means an electrical installation containing generating
or power conversion equipment and associated electric equipment
and parts, such as switchboards, switches, wiring, fuses, circuit
breakers, compensators, and transformers.
"Mine" means an underground coal mine.
"Person" includes natural persons, corporations, limited liability
companies, partnerships, and any other legal entity.
"Man" or "men" includes woman and women. The masculine
gender includes the feminine and the feminine includes the
masculine.
(Formerly: Acts 1955, c.168, s.15; Acts 1975, P.L.257, SEC.1.) As
amended by Acts 1979, P.L.231, SEC.1; P.L.37-1985, SEC.47;
P.L.243-1987, SEC.1; P.L.112-1992, SEC.5; P.L.8-1993, SEC.295.
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