Effective - 28 Aug 1959, 2 histories
293.380. Coal mine operated, how — abandoned workrooms sealed, penalty. — 1. The owner, agent or operator of any coal mine in this state, employing five or more persons, if said mine is worked on the room and pillar plan, shall cause the work in such mine to be prosecuted in the following manner, and none other, to wit: Two entries must be driven parallel for the ingress and egress of the air, and crosscuts must be made at intervals not to exceed fifty feet apart, and no rooms, entries or other openings shall be allowed to start inside of the last crosscut until the next one be made; and further, that it shall be unlawful for any owner, operator or agent for any person, persons, corporation or company to permit the mouth or mouths of worked-out or abandoned rooms or entries in any coal mine to remain open for a period exceeding one month from the date of abandonment of any such room, rooms, entry or entries.
2. All such abandoned work as designated must be securely sealed in such manner as will effectually prevent the escape of all gases or other impurities calculated to vitiate the ventilative current of a mine; provided, that the sealing of rooms and entries herein provided for shall only be required in such mines and places therein as the director of the division of mine inspection shall in his discretion deem necessary for insuring the health and safety of workmen therein.
3. Any owner, agent or operator in charge of any coal mine worked on the room and pillar plan failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than six months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment and every day that the mine is operated contrary to the provisions of this section, after the owner, agent or operator in charge thereof shall have been convicted for a first offense under this section, shall be and constitute a separate and distinct subsequent offense, and shall be punished as such.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 188 §§ 42, 43)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 293 - Mining Regulations
Section 293.010 - Definitions.
Section 293.020 - Applicability of law.
Section 293.040 - Maps of mine, when made, contents.
Section 293.050 - Hours of work — safety rules — posting of law and rules.
Section 293.070 - Limits on visitors.
Section 293.080 - Mine owner to report, when.
Section 293.090 - Director's report, contents.
Section 293.100 - Washrooms, dressing rooms, first aid equipment.
Section 293.110 - Working places, shafts — drinking devices.
Section 293.120 - Air safety requirements.
Section 293.130 - Mine railroad equipment and operating requirements — gasoline engines limited.
Section 293.140 - Escapement shafts, how equipped.
Section 293.150 - Electrical wiring and equipment requirements.
Section 293.160 - Electrical equipment requirements.
Section 293.170 - Fire safety requirements.
Section 293.180 - Protective clothing and devices to be worn.
Section 293.190 - Accident reports, investigation, powers of inspector — failure to report, penalty.
Section 293.200 - Shaft coal mine outlets and escapement shaft requirements — penalty.
Section 293.210 - Shaft coal mines, ventilation requirements.
Section 293.220 - Daily examination of coal mines generating explosive gas, record.
Section 293.230 - Experienced coal miner to handle explosives or gases.
Section 293.240 - Blasting cartridge requirements.
Section 293.250 - Violation of coal mining safety laws, penalty.
Section 293.260 - Explosive strongbox required — employment of shot firers, duties — penalty.
Section 293.270 - Storage of over daily supply of explosives in mine prohibited.
Section 293.280 - Location of explosive storage magazines, ventilation.
Section 293.290 - Detonators or caps not kept in magazine in coal mine.
Section 293.300 - Explosives not to be prepared in storage magazine.
Section 293.310 - Violations of law as to explosive storage, penalty.
Section 293.320 - Bore holes required, when, where.
Section 293.330 - Signaling and hoisting devices in shaft, safety requirements.
Section 293.350 - Hoisting equipment, operating requirements (coal mines).
Section 293.360 - Inspection of hoisting equipment, records — penalty (coal mines).
Section 293.380 - Coal mine operated, how — abandoned workrooms sealed, penalty.
Section 293.390 - Standards for roof control — supply of materials required (coal mines).
Section 293.400 - Coal dust controls.
Section 293.410 - Welding and cutting operations, ventilation, rock-dusting.
Section 293.420 - Weighing regulations where coal miners paid by weight.
Section 293.440 - Weighing laws apply to "loaders", when.
Section 293.450 - Coal miners to be brought to surface for lunch period of hour, penalty.
Section 293.460 - Coal miner to prove qualifications before working alone — penalty.
Section 293.470 - Division to close coal mine, when — penalty.
Section 293.480 - Coal miners paid wages, when — penalty.
Section 293.490 - Coal miner's lien for wages.
Section 293.500 - Applicability of sections 293.200 to 293.490.
Section 293.510 - Dangerous mines to be closed by state, expenses.
Section 293.520 - Experience required for miners, except trainees.
Section 293.530 - Notice of opening and abandonment of mines — abandoned mines to be sealed.
Section 293.540 - Outlets may be required, when — location of shafts.
Section 293.550 - Ventilation of mines.
Section 293.560 - State inspections for health safety — procedure when ventilation inadequate.
Section 293.570 - State inspection for dust — waterlines to be installed, when, sprinkling.
Section 293.580 - Explosives, storage, handling and use.
Section 293.590 - Hoisting equipment and operating regulations.
Section 293.600 - Director may require crossheads in shaft sinking operations.
Section 293.610 - Applicability of sections 293.510 to 293.600.
Section 293.620 - Caves, inspection, to provide map — inspection fees.
Section 293.630 - Rules and regulations.
Section 293.640 - Inspectors and employees — appointment, salaries.
Section 293.650 - Expenses of director and inspectors.
Section 293.660 - Inspection of mines, when — rights and duties of inspectors — reports.
Section 293.670 - Complaints as to dangerous conditions, procedure.
Section 293.680 - Judicial review of orders of director — effect of filing on order, procedure.