The following rules and procedures shall be complied with in dealing with electricity:
1. Circuits shall be protected against excessive overloads by fuses or circuit breakers of the correct type and capacity;
2. Powerlines and telephone circuits shall be protected against short circuits and lightning;
3. Electric equipment and circuits shall be provided with switches or other controls. Such switches or controls shall be of approved design and construction and shall be properly installed;
4. Individual overload protection or short-circuit protection shall be provided for the trailing cables of mobile equipment;
5. Power wires and cables shall have adequate current-carrying capacity and shall be protected from mechanical injury;
6. Neither crawler-mounted nor rubber-tired equipment shall run over trailing cables unless the cables are properly bridged or otherwise protected;
7. Distribution boxes shall be provided with disconnect switches;
8. Trailing cable and power cable connections to junction boxes shall not be made or broken under load;
9. Power wires and cables shall be insulated adequately where they pass into or out of electrical compartments;
10. Power wires and cables which present a fire hazard shall be well installed on acceptable insulators;
11. Where metallic tools or equipment can come in contact with bare power lines, the lines shall be guarded or de-energized;
12. Telephone and low potential electric signal wires shall be protected from contacting energized power lines;
13. High potential transmission cables shall be covered, insulated or placed according to acceptable electrical codes to prevent contact with low potential circuits;
14. The potential on bare signal wires accessible to personal contact should not exceed thirty (30) volts;
15. Splices in power cables, including ground conductor, where provided, shall be:
a. mechanically strong with adequate electrical conductivity,
b. effectively insulated and sealed to exclude moisture, and
c. provided with mechanical protection and electrical conductivity as near as possible to that of the original;
16. Shovel trailing cables shall not be moved with the shovel dipper unless cable slings or sleds are used;
17. Energized high potential cables shall be handled with insulated hooks or tongs;
18. Electrical equipment shall be de-energized before work is done on such equipment. Switches shall be locked out and suitable warning signs posted by the individuals who are to do the work; locks shall be removed only by authorized persons;
19. Power circuits shall be de-energized before work is done on such circuits unless hot line tools are used. Switches shall be locked out and suitable warning signs posted by the individuals who are to do the work; locks shall be removed only by authorized persons;
20. Principal power switches shall be labeled to show which units they control;
21. At least three (3) feet of clearance shall be provided around all parts of stationary electric equipment or switch gear where access or travel is necessary;
22. Dry wooden platforms, insulating mats or other electrically nonconductive material shall be kept in place at all switchboards and power control switches where shock hazards exist. However, metal plates on which a person normally would stand, plates which are kept at the same potential as the grounded metal noncurrent carrying parts of the power switches to be operated may be used;
23. Suitable danger signs shall be posted at all major electrical installations;
24. Areas containing major electrical installations shall be entered only by authorized personnel;
25. Electrical connections and resistor grids that are difficult or impractical to insulate shall be guarded unless protection is provided by location;
26. Reverse-current protection shall be provided at storage battery charging stations;
27. All metal enclosing or encasing electrical circuits shall be grounded or provided with equivalent protection. This requirement does not apply to battery-operated equipment;
28. Metal fencing and metal buildings enclosing transformers and switch gear shall be grounded;
29. Frame grounding or equivalent protection shall be provided for mobile equipment powered through trailing cables;
30. Continuity and resistance of grounding systems shall be tested immediately after installation;
31. Electric equipment and wiring shall be inspected by a certified person as often as necessary to assure safe operating conditions;
32. When a potentially dangerous condition is found it shall be corrected before equipment or wiring is energized;
33. Inspection and cover plates on electrical equipment shall be kept in place at all times except during testing or repairs;
34. Circuits shall be de-energized before fuses are removed or replaced;
35. Fuse tongs or hot line tools shall be used when fuses are removed or replaced in medium or high voltage circuits;
36. Trailing cables shall be clamped to machines in a manner to protect the cables from damage and to prevent strain on the electrical connections;
37. Surplus trailing cables to shovels, cranes and similar equipment shall be stored in cable boots or on reels mounted on the equipment or otherwise protected from mechanical damage;
38. Operating controls shall be installed so that they can be operated without danger of contact with energized conductors;
39. Equipment with booms or masts which are not properly protected shall not be operated where the booms or masts can come within ten (10) feet of an energized overhead power line;
40. Overhead high potential power lines shall be installed as specified by the National Electrical Safety Code;
41. When equipment must be moved under energized power lines and the clearance is less than ten (10) feet, the power lines shall be de-energized or other precautions shall be taken;
42. Guy wires from poles supporting high voltage transmission lines shall be securely connected to the system ground or be provided with insulators installed near the pole end;
43. Telegraph, telephone or signal wires shall not be installed on the same crossarm with power conductors. When carried on poles supporting power lines, they shall be installed as specified by the National Electrical Safety Code;
44. Transformers shall be totally enclosed or shall be placed at least fifteen (15) feet above the ground, twenty (20) feet above driveways and haulage ways, or installed in a transformer house, or surrounded by a subtantial fence at least six (6) feet high and at least three (3) feet from any energized parts, casings or wiring;
45. Transformer enclosures shall be kept locked against unauthorized entry; and
46. Tools and supplies shall be carried in the hands and not on the shoulders when men travel near bare power conductors.
Laws 1978, c. 148, § 15, emerg. eff. April 7, 1978.
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.