Code of Virginia
Title 45.2 - Mines, Minerals, and Energy
Chapter 7 - Requirements Applicable to Underground Coal Mines; Mine Construction

§ 45.2-704. Employment and duties of top persons; plan for excavation of shaft or slope - A. During the construction or modification of any shaft or...

§ 45.2-705. Employment of inexperienced underground miners - A. An inexperienced underground miner shall be required to work...

§ 45.2-706. Employment of authorized persons - No miner shall be placed in charge of a cutting,...

§ 45.2-707. Mining in proximity to gas or oil wells - A. Except as provided in subsection D, an operator who...

§ 45.2-708. Mining in proximity to an abandoned area - A. The mine foreman shall ensure that boreholes are drilled...

§ 45.2-709. Roof, face, and ribs to be secure - A. All underground active workings and travel ways shall be...

§ 45.2-710. Roof control plans - A. Each underground coal mine shall have a roof control...

§ 45.2-711. Instruction of miners - The operator or his agent shall instruct all miners in...

§ 45.2-712. Copies of plan - The operator or his agent shall, upon request, furnish a...

§ 45.2-713. Automated temporary roof support systems - The Chief shall adopt regulations requiring automated temporary roof support...

§ 45.2-714. Supplies of materials for supports - A. The operator or his agent shall provide at or...

§ 45.2-715. Examination and testing of roof, face, and ribs - A. The operator or his agent shall instruct every miner...

§ 45.2-716. Mapping of roof falls - Any unplanned roof fall that is required to be reported...

§ 45.2-717. Unsafe conditions - A. No person shall work or travel under unsupported roof...

§ 45.2-718. Removal of supports - A. No person shall deliberately remove any support in an...

§ 45.2-719. Surface storage of explosives and detonators - A. Two or more surface magazines shall be provided for...

§ 45.2-720. Underground transportation of explosives and detonators - A. Any explosives or detonators carried anywhere underground by any...

§ 45.2-721. Underground storage of explosives and detonators - A. If a supply of explosives or detonators for use...

§ 45.2-722. Blasting practices; penalty - A. All explosives shall be of the permissible type except...

§ 45.2-723. Blasting cables - Each blasting cable shall be: 1. Well insulated and as...

§ 45.2-724. Misfires - A. Where a misfire occurs with an electric detonator, a...

§ 45.2-725. Explosives and blasting practices in shaft and slope operations - A. Every blasting area in a shaft or slope operation...

§ 45.2-726. Mine openings - A. Except as provided in § 45.2-728, there shall be...

§ 45.2-727. Separation of openings - A. In a drift or slope mine, openings shall be...

§ 45.2-728. Number of miners in openings - Until the two travel ways are made as required by...

§ 45.2-729. Maintenance of mine openings - Every mine opening that is used for entering and leaving...

§ 45.2-730. Signs, life lines, and equipment - A. Direction signs shall be posted conspicuously at all points...

§ 45.2-731. Examination of escapeways - The mine foreman shall examine every escapeway for hazardous conditions...

§ 45.2-732. Longwall escape routes and plan - A. The operator of any mine that uses longwalls as...

§ 45.2-733. Fire protection - A. Every shaft, and every partition therein, shall be as...

§ 45.2-734. Unused openings - Every unused or abandoned surface opening shall be effectively closed...

§ 45.2-735. Hoisting equipment - A. Every hoist used for handling miners shall be equipped...

§ 45.2-736. Hoisting ropes - A. The hoisting rope on any cage or trip shall...

§ 45.2-737. Hoisting cages - A. Any cage used for hoisting miners shall be of...

§ 45.2-738. Shaft and slope conditions - A. Every shaft shall be equipped with safety gates at...

§ 45.2-739. Signaling; signal code - A. Two independent means of signaling shall be provided between...

§ 45.2-740. Inspections of hoisting equipment - A. Before hoisting or lowering any miner in a shaft,...

§ 45.2-741. Hoisting engineers - A. If miners are transported into or out of an...

§ 45.2-742. Operations of hoisting equipment - A. The speed of the cage, car, or trip in...

§ 45.2-743. Maintenance of hoisting equipment - Every hoist, rope, cage, and other component of any piece...

§ 45.2-744. Haulage roads - A. The roadbed, rails, joints, switches, frogs, and other elements...

§ 45.2-745. Track switches and rails - A. Every track switch shall be provided with a properly...

§ 45.2-746. Clearance on haulage roads - A. Every track haulage road in an entry, room, or...

§ 45.2-747. Conveyor crossings - Suitable facilities for crossing a conveyor belt shall be provided...

§ 45.2-748. Shelter holes - A. Every haulage road shall have shelter holes at intervals...

§ 45.2-749. Refuge from moving traffic - Upon the approach of moving traffic, any miner not engaged...

§ 45.2-750. Inspection of underground equipment - Once per week, or more often if necessary, the mine...

§ 45.2-751. Maintenance of equipment - Every locomotive, mine car, shuttle car, supply car, conveyor, piece...

§ 45.2-752. Self-propelled equipment - A. Every piece of self-propelled mobile transportation or haulage equipment...

§ 45.2-753. Pushing cars - Pushing any car on a main haulage road is prohibited...

§ 45.2-754. Transportation of material - A. Any equipment, material, or supplies being transported shall be...

§ 45.2-755. Securing cars - A. A standing car on any track, unless it is...

§ 45.2-756. Riding on cars - A. No person other than the motorman and the trip...

§ 45.2-757. Back-poling - Back-poling shall be prohibited except (i) at a place where...

§ 45.2-758. Operation of equipment - A. Every operator of self-propelled mobile haulage equipment shall face...

§ 45.2-759. Dispatchers - Where a dispatcher is employed to control trips at a...

§ 45.2-760. Availability of mantrips - The operator or his agent shall maintain a mantrip or...

§ 45.2-761. Mantrips - A. Each mantrip that is operated by means of a...

§ 45.2-762. Mantrip loading and unloading areas - A. Any area used regularly for loading or unloading mantrips...

§ 45.2-763. Transporting miners by conveyor belt - A. If a conveyor belt is used for transporting miners,...

§ 45.2-764. Housekeeping; noxious fumes - A. Good housekeeping shall be practiced in and around every...

§ 45.2-765. Lighting - A. Lights shall be provided as needed in or on...

§ 45.2-766. Flammable or combustible materials - A. Oil, grease, and any similar flammable or combustible material...

§ 45.2-767. Hazardous crane operations - A crane operator shall at all times during any hazardous...

§ 45.2-768. Controlling dust at the surface - A. In each surface structure, enclosure, or facility at any...

§ 45.2-769. Scaffolding and overhead protection - Proper scaffolding or proper overhead protection shall be provided (i)...

§ 45.2-770. Welding and cutting - No welding or cutting with arc or flame shall be...

§ 45.2-771. Fire prevention and fire control - The provisions of Article 5 (§ 45.2-912 et seq.) of...

§ 45.2-772. Surface equipment - The provisions of Article 6 (§ 45.2-915 et seq.) of...

§ 45.2-773. Travel ways and loading and haulage areas - The provisions of Article 7 (§ 45.2-922 et seq.) of...

§ 45.2-774. Electricity - The provisions of Article 9 (§ 45.2-926 et seq.) of...

§ 45.2-775. Surface blasting - The provisions of Article 10 (§ 45.2-931 et seq.) of...

§ 45.2-776. Ground control - The provisions of Article 11 (§ 45.2-934) of Chapter 9...

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Code of Virginia Title 45.2 - Mines, Minerals, and Energy Chapter 7 - Requirements Applicable to Underground Coal Mines; Mine Construction

Code of Virginia
Title 45.2 - Mines, Minerals, and Energy
Chapter 7 - Requirements Applicable to Underground Coal Mines; Mine Construction