(a) All flame safety lamps used for examining coal mines or for working therein shall be permissible. When not in use, they shall be in the care of certified officials or other competent designated persons who shall disassemble, examine, clean, fill, and deliver them, locked and in safe condition, to their users before they enter the mine. Flame safety lamps shall not be unlocked or disassembled inside any coal mine.
(b) At least two permissible flame safety lamps shall be kept in serviceable condition at each coal mine. Not less than 25 percent of those in use or one, whichever is greater, shall be kept in reserve at each mine for use in emergency.
(c) Permissible flame safety lamps shall be entrusted for use only to certified persons or to approved competent persons who have been accredited as users of flame safety lamps as required in this chapter.
(d) Every person who knows his flame safety lamp to be injured or defective shall immediately extinguish it and promptly report its condition to his supervisor, the mine foreman, or to the designated lamp attendant. Defective lamps must be kept separate from others until repaired.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.
Article 4 - Mine Gases and Ventilation.
Section 25-9-81 - Use of Methane Detectors.
Section 25-9-82 - Standards and Procedures as to Gases and Air Quality.
Section 25-9-83 - Standards as to Volume of Air.
Section 25-9-84 - Coursing of Air.
Section 25-9-85 - Sealing, Testing, etc., of Abandoned Workings.
Section 25-9-86 - Examinations for Gases and Other Dangerous Conditions.
Section 25-9-87 - Use of Flame Safety Lamps.
Section 25-9-88 - Reports as to Ventilation, Gas Content, Reopening of Mines, Etc.
Section 25-9-89 - Procedure When Workings Approaching Inaccessible Accumulations of Gases or Water.