Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees
Section 292.500 - Duty of contractors and owners.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.500. Duty of contractors and owners. — All contractors and owners when constructing buildings in cities, where the plans and specifications require the floors to be arched between the beams thereof or where the floors or filling in between the floors are fireproof material or brick work, shall complete the flooring or filling in as the building progresses, to not less than within three tiers or beams below that on which the iron work is being erected. If the plans and specifications of such buildings do not require filling in between the beams of floors with brick or fireproof material, all contractors for carpenter work in course of construction shall lay the under flooring thereof or a safe temporary floor on each story as the building progresses to not less than within two stories, or floors below the one to which such building has been erected. Where double floors are not to be used, such owner or contractor shall keep planks over the floor, two stories or floors below where the work is being performed. If the floor beams are of iron or steel the contractor for the iron or steel work of buildings in the course of construction or the owners of such buildings, shall thoroughly plank over the entire tier of iron or steel beams on which the structural iron or steel work is being erected, except such spaces as may be reasonably required for the proper construction of such iron or steel work and the raising and lowering of materials, to be used in the construction of such building, or such spaces as may be designated by the plans and specifications for stairways and elevator shafts.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10231)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13274

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Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations

Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees

Section 292.010 - Notification of occupancy of factory.

Section 292.020 - Equipment to be guarded.

Section 292.030 - Safety guards.

Section 292.040 - Minor not to clean or work in certain places about machinery.

Section 292.050 - Openings to be guarded.

Section 292.060 - Fire escapes.

Section 292.070 - Doors to open outward, not to be bolted, when.

Section 292.080 - Explosives not to be placed near egress.

Section 292.090 - Scaffolding — warning to those near building.

Section 292.110 - Ventilation.

Section 292.120 - Prevention of dust, smoke and gas.

Section 292.130 - Director may order fan installed.

Section 292.140 - Overcrowding in factories prohibited.

Section 292.150 - Washrooms for women.

Section 292.160 - Separate water closets.

Section 292.180 - Health and safety of employees to be protected — director may seal machinery, when.

Section 292.190 - All accidents to be reported.

Section 292.200 - Offenses.

Section 292.210 - Violation a misdemeanor — fines.

Section 292.220 - Proceedings against whom when violated by corporation.

Section 292.230 - Prosecution where violation of other laws.

Section 292.240 - Fines, where paid.

Section 292.250 - Duty of prosecuting attorney.

Section 292.280 - Inspection — duty and power of director of inspection section.

Section 292.290 - Penalty.

Section 292.300 - Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases.

Section 292.310 - Articles considered dangerous to health.

Section 292.320 - Employees to be furnished with clothing — respirators to be used while at work.

Section 292.330 - Employees to be examined monthly by physician.

Section 292.340 - Physician to make report to department of health and senior services — penalty for failure.

Section 292.350 - Duty of director of department of health and senior services.

Section 292.360 - Employer to provide dressing rooms, lavatories.

Section 292.370 - Drinking fountains, ice water, to be provided employees.

Section 292.380 - Workrooms to be kept in sanitary condition.

Section 292.390 - Prevention of dust.

Section 292.400 - Hoppers, chutes, to be provided with covering.

Section 292.410 - Duty of director of inspection section.

Section 292.420 - Notices to be posted in rooms — to contain what.

Section 292.430 - Penalty for violation.

Section 292.440 - Employer defined.

Section 292.450 - Applicability of sections 292.450 to 292.540.

Section 292.460 - Outside ladder not to be used, when.

Section 292.470 - Stairways to be kept lighted when in use.

Section 292.480 - To provide protection for persons engaged in building.

Section 292.490 - Must build proper supports — when.

Section 292.500 - Duty of contractors and owners.

Section 292.510 - Shafts or openings to be enclosed — railroads excepted.

Section 292.520 - Director to enforce provisions.

Section 292.530 - Violation — penalty.

Section 292.540 - Director to make inspection.

Section 292.560 - Sale of tenement-made articles prohibited.

Section 292.570 - Penalty.

Section 292.600 - Definitions.

Section 292.602 - Missouri emergency response commission established — members — appointment, qualifications — terms — vacancies — removal for cause — expenses, powers and duties.

Section 292.604 - Funding of commission — distribution of funds.

Section 292.605 - Employer to furnish certain information, to whom, form — on-site inspections, when — updating of information, when — information made available to public, by whom, fee.

Section 292.606 - Fees, certain employers, how much, due when, late penalty — excess credited when — agencies receiving funds, duties — use of funds, commission to establish criteria.

Section 292.607 - Chemical emergency preparedness fund established — reversion to general revenue, prohibited.

Section 292.610 - Employer's trade secrets, department to protect — disclosure of by public employees and officers, penalty.

Section 292.613 - Rules and regulations, department to promulgate — procedure.

Section 292.615 - Violations, attorney general to bring action — jurisdiction, circuit court — penalties, limit, payable to general revenue — civil actions, by whom, why, commission approval — actions against local committee, by whom, why — access fo...

Section 292.617 - Explosive or blasting agents, temporary storage — notification of local fire department and certain others — content of report, exceptions — visible markings on buildings, rooms and containers, requirements, exceptions — motor vehic...

Section 292.623 - Immunity from liability for official actions by members of commission and local emergency planning committee, exceptions.

Section 292.625 - Additional duties of department.

Section 292.630 - Portable toilets required at certain construction projects.

Section 292.650 - Hepatitis B immunization for at-risk state employees — departments to determine, duties.

Section 292.655 - Definitions — needles used by employers in conduct of business, any commercially available may be used.

Section 292.656 - Medical needles, employer use of OSHA- or FDA-approved devices permitted.

Section 292.675 - Definitions — on-site training required — workers to maintain documentation of completion of training — resolution or ordinance required — violations, penalty — rulemaking authority.