Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1567 - Mine Equipment; Safety Provisions

• Section 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. Effective Date: 04-06-2007
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 1567.26 - Explosives And Tools On Cages Or Stairways.
  Powder, explosives, and working tools shall not be taken down or up a hoisting shaft in a cage when men are going down or...
• Section 1567.27 - Use Of Squibs And Fuses - Tamping.
  No employee in a mine, who is about to fire a shot with a squib, shall shorten the fuse, saturate it with oil, or...
• Section 1567.28, 1567.29 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-24-1999
• Section 1567.30 - Firing Of Shots - Appointed Times.
  At a mine where the firing of shots is restricted to specific times, no miner shall fire a shot until the time appointed for...
• Section 1567.31 - Drill Holes.
  When a miner drills holes in the face of coal for blasting and such drill hole bottoms in the permanent roof, he shall not...
• Section 1567.32 - Misfired Shots.
  A miner after firing a shot shall not leave the mine until he has determined whether or not such shot has misfired. If a...
• Section 1567.33 - Examination After Each Blast.
  After each blast, the miner shall exercise great care in examining the roof and coal, and shall secure them safely before beginning to load...
• Section 1567.34 - Solid Shooting.
  The owner, lessee, or agent of any mine shall not order or permit solid shooting in a mine unless the owner, lessee, or agent...
• Section 1567.35 - Use Of Gasoline, Naphtha, Kerosene, Fuel Oil Or Gas Engine.
  No gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel oil, or gas engine shall be used in a mine, except for operating pumping machinery where electric, compressed air,...
• Section 1567.36 - Fire Extinguishers.
  At each permanent underground oil storage station there shall be two portable fire extinguishers and two hundred forty pounds of rock dust. One portable...
• Section 1567.37 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-24-1999
• Section 1567.38 - Use Of Locomotive And Haulage Equipment.
  At a mine, or in any part thereof, where a locomotive is detached from a moving train of cars for the purpose of dropping...
• Section 1567.39 - Lights And Signals For Locomotives And Cars - Riding On Locomotive - Protection Against Runaway Or Self-propelled Equipment.
  The operator of an underground coal mine, at which locomotives are used for hauling coal, shall keep a light on the front end of...
• Section 1567.40 - Riding On Haulage Trips.
  No person except those in charge of trips, superintendents, mine foremen, mine electricians, machinists, and blacksmiths, when required by their duty, shall ride on...
• Section 1567.41 - Operation Of Trolley Ahead Of Locomotive.
  The motormen shall not run the locomotive with the trolley ahead of the locomotive, except in cases where they cannot do otherwise. In such...
• Section 1567.42 - Riding On Locomotive Or Cars.
  The person in charge of trips shall warn persons forbidden to ride on the locomotive or cars, and shall not permit such persons to...
• Section 1567.43 - Signal Light.
  The trip rider in charge of rope haulage trips shall see that the signal light, as required by section 1567.39 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 1567.44 - Handling Cars.
  Drivers shall use care in handling cars, especially going down grade and at junction points. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with...
• Section 1567.45 - Limitation On Number Of Persons In Cage Or Elevator - Hoisting Equipment Safety Examination.
  (A) When more than the lawful number of persons get on a cage or elevator to be lowered into a mine, or to be...
• Section 1567.46 - Windlass Required.
  When the only means of egress is by vertical shaft in which cages or elevators are used as a means of hoisting persons employed...
• Section 1567.47 - Qualifications Of Persons In Charge Of Hoisting Engine.
  The owner, lessee, or agent of a mine worked by a shaft or slope, shall put only experienced, competent, and sober persons in charge...
• Section 1567.48 - Safe Appliances For Ingress And Egress In Shaft.
  The operator of a mine shall provide and maintain safe appliances, approved by the deputy mine inspector, for the ingress and egress of persons...
• Section 1567.49 - Lowering And Hoisting Of Persons By Vertical Shaft.
  The operator of a mine, at which the only means of ingress and egress for the persons employed therein is by a vertical shaft...
• Section 1567.50 - Regulations For Speaking Tube, Cages, And Safety Gate.
  The operator of a mine operated by a shaft shall provide and maintain a metal tube, suitable for conversation between persons, connecting the engine...
• Section 1567.51 - Signal Code.
  At each mine operated by a shaft, the means of signaling to and from the bottom man, the top man, and the engineer shall...
• Section 1567.52 - Additions To Code Of Signals - Posting.
  The management of any mine may, with the consent of the deputy mine inspector, add to the code of signals to increase its efficiency,...
• Section 1567.53 - Emergency Signal In Vertical Shaft.
  At each mine where persons are hoisted in a vertical shaft, an emergency signal shall be provided in such manner that persons can give...
• Section 1567.54 - Adequate Fire Protection - Firefighting Equipment.
  At each mine at which the only means of egress is by vertical shaft, the operator shall provide adequate fire protection to secure the...
• Section 1567.55 - Report Of Coal Seam Fire - Covering Of Exposed Surface To Prevent Fire.
  The operator of any coal mine or the owner of land bearing natural coal deposits immediately upon learning of a fire in any coal...
• Section 1567.56 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-24-1999
• Section 1567.57 - Two-way Communication System.
  Every operator of a mine shall install and maintain in efficient working condition a system of two-way communications approved by the chief of the...
• Section 1567.58 - Lights In Mines.
  The operator of each mine shall provide an enclosed lard or signal oil lamp or lantern approved by the deputy mine inspector, or incandescent...
• Section 1567.59 - Flame Safety Lamps.
  The operator of an underground coal mine shall keep on hand in proper condition for use not less than one approved flame safety lamp,...
• Section 1567.60 - Recording Pressure Gauge.
  The operator of any underground mine shall have a U tube or recording pressure gauge for the purpose of recording pressure or vacuum of...
• Section 1567.61 - First Aid And Emergency Medical Equipment - Report Of Arrangements For Emergency Medical Assistance And Transportation.
  As used in this section, "emergency medical service organization" has the same meaning as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. The operator at...
• Section 1567.62 - Obstruction Of Airway.
  No person shall place refuse in or obstruct any airway or break-through used as an airway. Effective Date: 10-29-1995
• Section 1567.63 - Use Of Traveling Ways - Loitering Prohibited.
  Each employee of a mine shall go to and from his place of duty by the traveling ways provided. He shall not travel around...
• Section 1567.64 - Operator To Provide Tag Lines Or Tie-off Lines For Miners.
  (A) As used in this section, "tag lines" and "tie-off lines" have the same meanings as in rules adopted under this section. (B) The...
• Section 1567.65 - Prohibition Against Smoking Or Carrying Smoking Materials.
  No person shall smoke or carry smoking materials or matches or lighters for smoking material in an underground coal mine or any underground gaseous...
• Section 1567.66 - Prohibition Against Intoxicants.
  No person shall go into, to, or around a mine, or the buildings, tracks, or machinery connected therewith, while under the influence of intoxicants....
• Section 1567.67 - Protective Clothing.
  Each man working in and about a mine shall exercise discretion in wearing such clothes as will protect him from injury and minimize the...
• Section 1567.68 - Safety Provisions For Machinery And Equipment.
  Coal spilled beneath belt conveyor drives or tail pieces shall not be removed while the conveyor is in motion, except where such coal can...
• Section 1567.681 - Fire Detection Devices Required On Conveyor Belts.
  (A) The operator of an underground coal mine that uses conveyor belts in the operation of the mine shall install fire detection devices on...
• Section 1567.69 - Longwall Mining Plans Or Revisions - Contents.
  (A) On and after July 20, 1984, no operator shall begin longwall mining in any coal mine until plans for the longwall mining have...
• Section 1567.70 - Plan For Recovery Of Longwall Roof Support - Approval By Chief.
  An operator conducting longwall mining shall develop a plan for recovery of chocks and shields or other longwall roof support and shall not initiate...
• Section 1567.71 - Two-way Communication Facilities.
  (A) An operator conducting longwall mining shall provide two-way communication facilities, approved by the chief of the division of mineral resources management, at the...
• Section 1567.72 - De-energizing Electrical Power On Longwall Working Face Conveyor.
  (A) An operator conducting longwall mining shall provide all longwall working face conveyors installed on and after the effective date of this section with...
• Section 1567.73 - Installation Of Methane Monitors.
  (A) The chief of the division of mineral resources management or the chief's representative shall require installation on a longwall working section of a...
• Section 1567.74 - Safety Requirements For Longwall Working Face.
  (A) No person shall cross the longwall working face conveyor while it is in operation unless a safe crossover is provided. (B) The operator...
• Section 1567.75 - Cutting And Welding.
  (A) Prior to cutting and welding being performed on a longwall working section, methane gas examinations shall be made by a certified foreman or...
• Section 1567.76 - Maintenance Of Hydraulic Lines And Roof Support Units.
  (A) An operator shall ensure that all hydraulic line repairs are performed in accordance with maintaining the functioning of the line at a level...
• Section 1567.77 - First Aid Equipment.
  An operator shall maintain first aid equipment required on each working section by section 1567.61 of the Revised Code in the headgate entry at...
• Section 1567.78 - Maintaining Accessible Tailgate Travel Route.
  An operator shall maintain an accessible travel route at all times off the tailgate end of the longwall working face unless the operator develops...
• Section 1567.79 - Instruction On Hazards.
  Employees assigned to work on a longwall working section shall be instructed in the hazards of longwall mining, including, but not limited to, a...
• Section 1567.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever knowingly violates any section of this chapter is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Effective Date: 10-29-1995

Last modified: October 10, 2016