The following rules and procedures shall be complied with when loading, hauling or dumping:
1. Equipment shall be inspected each shift by a qualified person designated by the operator. Equipment defects affecting safety shall be reported immediately;
2. Equipment defects affecting safety shall be corrected before the equipment is used;
3. Powered mobile equipment shall be provided with adequate brakes;
4. Powered mobile haulage equipment shall be provided with audible warning devices. Lights shall be provided on both ends when required;
5. Equipment operators shall be certain, by signal or other means, that all persons are in the clear before starting or moving equipment;
6. When the entire length of a conveyor is visible from the starting switch, the operator shall visually check to make certain that all persons are in the clear before starting the conveyor. When the entire length of the conveyor is not visible from the starting switch, a positive audible warning system shall be installed and operated to warn persons that the conveyor will be started;
7. Trucks, shuttle cars and front-end loaders shall be equipped with emergency brakes separate and independent of the regular braking system;
8. Operators' cabs shall be constructed to permit operators to see without difficulty and shall be reasonably comfortable;
9. Cab windows shall be of safety glass or equivalent, in good condition, and be kept clean;
10. Cabs of mobile equipment shall be kept free of extraneous materials;
11. Adequate back stops or brakes shall be installed on inclined conveyor drive units to prevent conveyors from running in reverse if a hazard to personnel will result;
12. No person shall be permitted to ride a power-driven chain belt or bucket conveyor unless the chain, belt or conveyor is specifically designed for the transportation of persons;
13. Equipment operating speeds shall be prudent and consistent with conditions of roadway, grades, clearance, visibility, traffic and the type of equipment used;
14. Dust control measures shall be taken where dust significantly reduces visibility of equipment operators. Haulage roads shall be wet down as necessary unless dust is controlled adequately by other methods;
15. Mobile equipment operators shall have full control of the equipment while it is in motion;
16. Dippers, buckets, loading booms or heavy suspended loads shall not be swung over the cabs of haulage vehicles until the drivers are out of the cabs and in safe locations, unless the trucks are designed specifically to protect the drivers from falling material;
17. Only authorized persons shall be present in areas of loading or dumping operations;
18. Unless safe provisions are made for persons to mount or leave equipment while it is in operation, the operator shall be notified of their intentions before getting on or off;
19. Persons shall not work or pass under the buckets or booms of loaders in operation;
20. When traveling between work areas, the equipment shall be secured in the travel position;
21. Dippers, buckets, scraper blades, and similar movable parts shall be secured or lowered to the ground when not in use;
22. Persons shall not ride in dippers, buckets, forks, clamshells or other parts of any equipment not specifically designed for the transportation of persons;
23. Loaded cars or trucks shall not be moved until the loads are trimmed properly;
24. Electrically powered mobile equipment shall not be left unattended unless the master switch is in the "off" position, all operating controls are in the "neutral" position, and the brakes are set or other equivalent precautions are taken against rolling;
25. Mobile equipment shall not be left unattended unless the brakes are set. The wheels shall be turned into a bank or wall, or shall be blocked, when such equipment is parked on a grade;
26. Persons shall not ride on top of loaded haulage equipment;
27. Persons shall not ride outside the cabs and beds of mobile equipment;
28. Equipment which is to be hauled shall be properly loaded and secured;
29. Dumping locations and haulage roads shall be kept reasonably free of water, debris and spillage;
30. Berms, bumper blocks, safety hooks or similar means shall be provided to prevent overtravel and overturning at dumping locations;
31. If truck spotters are used, they shall be well in the clear while trucks are backing into dumping position and dumping; lights shall be used at night to direct trucks;
32. Where overhead clearance is restricted, warning devices shall be installed and the restricted area shall be conspicuously marked;
33. Ramps and dumps shall be of solid construction, of ample width, have ample side clearance and headroom, and be kept reasonably free of spillage;
34. Lights, flares or other warning devices shall be posted when parked equipment creates a hazard to vehicular traffic;
35. Tires shall be deflated before repairs on them are started, and adequate means shall be provided to prevent wheel locking rims from creating a hazard during tire inflation;
36. Any load extending more than four (4) feet beyond the rear of the vehicle body shall be marked clearly with a red flag by day and a red light by night;
37. A tow bar shall be used to tow heavy equipment. A safety chain shall be used in conjunction with the tow bar; and
38. When heavy equipment is to be towed, the towing vehicle shall be of suitable weight and strength to maintain safe control of the load.
Laws 1978, c. 148, § 13, emerg. eff. April 7, 1978; Laws 1981, c. 23, § 5, emerg. eff. April 6, 1981.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§45-1.2. Violation of Board order - Notice - Hearing - Misdemeanor - Injunction - Action.
§45-1.3. Hearings - Hearing officer - Judicial review.
§45-1.4. Inspection of mines - Mining records.
§45-1.5. Rules and regulations.
§45-1a. Powers and duties of Commission.
§45-1b. Chief Mine Inspector - Director.
§45-1c. Powers and duties of Director.
§45-1d. Additional powers and duties of Director.
§45-1f. Oklahoma Miner Training Institute - Duties.
§45-1g. Department of Environmental Quality - Regulation of certain mining activities.
§45-2. Certificates of competency - Violations - Examinations - Qualification.
§45-3. Chief Mine Inspector - Assistant Mine Inpectors.
§45-3.1. Director of Department of Mines.
§45-5. Certificates - Contents - Fees.
§45-31. Chief Mine Inspector - Annual report to Governor.
§45-32. Examinations of mines.
§45-33. Journal of inspections - Official communications - Equipment and material.
§45-34. Office - Property of state.
§45-37. Withdrawal of person's from dangerous mine - Violations - Penalties.
§45-40. Obstruction of inspectors - Penalty.
§45-41. Disputes between operators and miners.
§45-44. Special counsel in certain proceedings involving Attorney General.
§45-45. Study of mining laws - Recommendations and proposed legislation.
§45-46. Market study and sulfur emissions standards study - Recommendations.
§45-47. Funding of activities.
§45-48. Borrow pits - Jurisdiction.
§45-412. Mine inspectors - Duties.
§45-413. Mine inspector to require compliance with act.
§45-414. Examination and inspection of mines - Time and manner.
§45-415. Dangerous conditions - Additional shafts.
§45-416. Health of employees - Underground excavations - Ventilation.
§45-417. Dust - Water lines - Sprinkling attachments.
§45-418. Loss of life or injury - Duty of operator and inspector.
§45-419. Shaft hoisting engineers - Age and experience - Duties - Loading and unloading.
§45-421. Shaft collars - Cribbing and timbering - Pipes and air lines.
§45-424. Explosives - Storage, transportation, handling and use.
§45-434. Orders of Mining Inspector - Review.
§45-435. Neglect or failure to perform requirements - Penalty.
§45-436. Open mine shafts - Covering - Approval - Penalties.
§45-437. Interference with protective covering devices - Penalties.
§45-442. Use of engines not meeting standards prohibited.
§45-477. May stop mining, when.
§45-478. Penalty for obstruction.
§45-502. Maps to be corrected every six months.
§45-503. Mine inspectors to be furnished copies of maps.
§45-504. Penalty for failure to furnish map copies.
§45-505. Conduct of developments.
§45-506. Ventilation - Construction of air and hoisting shafts.
§45-507. Openings to be separated by natural strata.
§45-508. Shaft not more than seventy-five feet deep.
§45-509. Hoisting machinery in shaft over seventy-five feet deep.
§45-510. Angle of traveled slope.
§45-511. Inspection of hoisting equipment and stairs.
§45-512. Safety equipment for shafts.
§45-513. Quality and testing of chains.
§45-514. Number of persons lowered or hoisted at one time.
§45-515. Inspection - Guard railings.
§45-518. Ventilating fans and doors.
§45-519. Mines to be kept free from gas.
§45-522. Electric wires to be insulated.
§45-523. Machines to be shielded - Electric pumps.
§45-524. Use of oil and grease.
§45-525. Precautions in dangerous workings.
§45-527. Precautions against dust or explosive matter.
§45-528.1. Water on cutter bars and rock drills - Use required.
§45-528.2. Violations by mine owners, operators, etc.
§45-528.3. Violations by miners and persons operating drills or machines.
§45-529. Workers' compensation coverage - Penalties - Exceptions.
§45-580. Punishment for offense.
§45-603. Cheating by molesting check numbers on cars.
§45-604. Punishment for offense.
§45-614. Definition of special terms.
§45-615. Violations of statute as misdemeanors - Civil liability.
§45-616. Construction of sewage or drainage facilities into operating or abandoned mine - Penalty.
§45-722. Declaration of policy.
§45-724. Permits - Limited Use Permits - Applications - Bond - Permit or bond release applications.
§45-725. Procedure for reclaiming land.
§45-726. Refuse disposal areas.
§45-729. Violations - Notice - Hearing - Enforcement - Informing of surface owners.
§45-732. Powers and duties of Department.
§45-734. Chief Mine Inspector.
§45-735. Sand and gravel - Inspections - Penalties.
§45-737. Governmental agencies to conform.
§45-740.2. Legislative findings - Purpose.
§45-740.3. Powers and duties of Commission.
§45-740.4. Participation in Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund.
§45-745.2. Term of permit - Fee - Transferability.
§45-745.3. Termination of permit - Extension.
§45-745.4. Renewal of permit - Application - Burden of proof - Term.
§45-745.8. Criteria for approval of permit or revision application.
§45-745.10. Revision of permit.
§45-745.13. Objections to application for permit - Informal conference - Hearings.
§45-745.14. Findings - Notice to applicant - Hearing on findings.
§45-745.16.1. Small operator assistance program.
§45-745.18. Impoundments of water on mining sites.
§45-745.19. Augering operations.
§45-745.20. Disposal of wastes.
§45-745.21. Surface mining near active and abandoned underground mines.
§45-745.22. Reclamation efforts - Variances.
§45-747. Backfilling, compacting, and grading.
§45-748. Conditions where backfilling, compacting, and grading are necessary.
§45-749. Restoring excess overburden, spoils and waste materials.
§45-750. Removal and restoration of topsoil.
§45-751. Disturbances to hydrologic balance.
§45-753. Explosives - Rules and regulations.
§45-754. Reestablishment of native flora - Length of liability.
§45-754.1. Spoil material - Placement.
§45-754.2. Performance standards.
§45-755. Steep slope surface mining - Performance standards - Exemptions.
§45-757. Prime farmland - Soil restoration - Exemptions.
§45-760. Mine operators - Duties.
§45-760.1. Suspension of underground mining in certain areas.
§45-760.2. Application of act to surface operations - Modifications.
§45-761. Licenses and permits - Display - Inspection.
§45-765. Data collection and analysis.
§45-766. Right of entry - Inspections - Signs - Violations - Public inspection of records, etc.
§45-767. Conflicts of interest - Violations.
§45-768. Reports of violations of act - Informal review - Inspection procedure.
§45-770. Release of performance bond or deposit - Application.
§45-771. Release of performance bond or deposit - Inspection and evaluation of reclamation work.
§45-774. Civil actions to compel compliance with act - Exceptions.
§45-775. Inspection of violations.
§45-777. Abatement of violation - Notice - Hearing - Cessation orders.
§45-778. Suspension or revocation of permit.
§45-779. Notices and orders - Requirements.
§45-783. Limitations on surface coal mining operations.
§45-784. Cooperative agreements with federal government.
§45-787. Appeal of order or other action.
§45-788. Enforcement or protection of interest in water resources - Replacement of water supply.
§45-789. Rules and regulations.
§45-790. Unconstitutionality of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87).
§45-791. Federal rules and regulations - Compliance - Reimbursement for costs.
§45-791.1. Alternative reclamation practices.
§45-792. Assistance of state agencies.
§45-793. Federally inspected reclamation activities.
§45-852. Governor as ex officio member.
§45-853. Supplementary agreements - Legislative appropriation.
§45-902. Certificate of competency - Violations - Examinations - First-aid certificates.
§45-903. Certification of applicants - Fees.
§45-904. Records - Rights and duties of certificate holders.
§45-905. Revocation of certificates - Notice.
§45-907. Inspection and examination of active strip and surface mines - Reports - Recommendations.
§45-908. Employment of certified strip pit mine foreman.
§45-909. Foreman - Duties and responsibilities.
§45-910. Proper ground control - Rules and procedures.
§45-911. Explosives - Rules and procedures for storage.
§45-912. Drilling for blasting - Rules and procedures.
§45-913. Loading, hauling or dumping - Rules and procedures.
§45-914. Travelways - Rules and procedures.
§45-915. Electricity - Rules and procedures.
§45-916. Equipment - Rules and procedures.
§45-917. Personal protection - Rules and procedures.
§45-918. Augering - Rules and procedures.
§45-919. General rules and procedures.
§45-931. Operator's fee - Disposition - Production report and forms.
§45-932. Delinquent reports and fees - Penalty - Time extension.
§45-933. Failure to report - Ascertainment of coal mined - Determination of fees - Penalty.
§45-934. Lien for fees - Perfecting - Notice - Indexing - Release
§45-935. Collection of delinquent fees.
§45-938. Department of Mines Revolving Fund.
§45-938.1. Oklahoma Miner Training Institute Revolving Fund.
§45-939. Coal-fired electric generating plants - Burning Oklahoma coal.
§45-939.1. Cost increases to consumers and impairment of certain contracts prohibited.