Effective: June 14, 2000
Latest Legislation: House Bill 601 - 123rd General Assembly
For the protection of transportation workers, track shall be laid to provide a minimum clearance of fourteen inches on the side of the entry opposite the trolley or feed wire at all haulage turnouts and crossovers between butt entries, on gathering passageways, on room entries, and chutes between room entries, except that where brake handles are on the side of mine cars, the clearance shall be provided on the wire side of such entries as have the wire on the same side as the brake handles. The clearance specified in this section shall be measured horizontally between the topside of the widest mine car and the rib. This section does not apply to entries having been driven prior to September 2, 1941, or at any mine or section of a mine, where, in the opinion of the division of mineral resources management, the roof conditions are such as to require a width of entry not sufficient to provide the clearance set out in this section.
No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 15 | Conservation of Natural Resources
Chapter 1563 | Mine Construction, Maintenance, Abandonment
Section 1563.01 | Chapter Does Not Apply to Chapter 1514 Activities.
Section 1563.02 | Gaseous Mine Defined.
Section 1563.03 | Map of New Mine.
Section 1563.04 | Survey - Copies of Map and Survey - Certification.
Section 1563.05 | Failure to Make and File Map or Addition.
Section 1563.06 | Right of Entry.
Section 1563.07 | Examination or Survey of Mine by Adjoining Landowner - Notice.
Section 1563.08 | Surveying Party - Fees.
Section 1563.09 | Examination or Survey - Liability for Damage.
Section 1563.10 | Refusal to Permit Survey - Judgment.
Section 1563.11 | Mining Near Public Roads.
Section 1563.111 | Mining Near Oil or Gas Well.
Section 1563.12 | Construction Regulations to Be Observed in Opening Mine.
Section 1563.13 | Maintenance of Means of Egress From Mine.
Section 1563.14 | Two Openings Required - Exceptions.
Section 1563.15 | Additional Opening for Protection Against Inundation.
Section 1563.17 | Break-Throughs and Brattices.
Section 1563.18 | Separate Traveling Ways.
Section 1563.19 | Slopes and Mechanical Haulageways - Refuge Holes.
Section 1563.20 | Track in Mines - Minimum Clearance.
Section 1563.21 | Location of Boilers.
Section 1563.24 | Mine Foreperson of Gaseous Mine - Powers and Duties.
Section 1563.25 | Accumulation of Combustible Materials Prohibited.
Section 1563.26 | Rock Dusting - Testing of Dust Samples.
Section 1563.27 | Examination of Working Place by Mine Foreman.
Section 1563.28 | Examination of Working Place by Fire Boss.
Section 1563.29 | Examination of Working Place by Miner.
Section 1563.30 | Unsafe Working Place.
Section 1563.31 | Work to Cease When Working Place Found Dangerous.
Section 1563.32 | Fencing of Dangerous Places - Danger Signs.
Section 1563.33 | Roof Control System and Plan.
Section 1563.34 | Operator Program for Improving Roof Control Systems.
Section 1563.35 | Criteria or Specifications Applied to Plans.
Section 1563.36 | Excessive Widths of Rooms and Entries or Faulty Pillar Recovery Methods.
Section 1563.37 | Operator to Supply Roof Support Materials - Roof Bolts - Testing of Danger Areas.
Section 1563.39 | Precautions When Working Place Approaches Completed or Abandoned Workings.
Section 1563.40 | Closing of Openings to Abandoned Mines - Closing Abandoned Vertical Shafts.
Section 1563.41 | Sealing Off Abandoned Workings.
Section 1563.42 | Filing of Map of Abandoned Mine.
Section 1563.43 | When Notice to Chief Required.