RCW 49.24.270
Shields to be provided.
Wherever, in the prosecution of caisson work in which compressed air is employed, the working chamber is less than twelve feet in length, and when such caissons are at any time suspended or hung while work is in progress, so that the bottom of the excavation is more than nine feet below the deck of the working chamber, a shield shall be erected therein for the protection of the workers.
[ 1989 c 12 § 15; 1941 c 194 § 20; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 7666-28.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 49.24 - Health and Safety—Underground Workers.
49.24.020 - Compressed air safety requirements.
49.24.030 - Medical and nursing attendants.
49.24.040 - Examination as to physical fitness.
49.24.080 - Requirements for underground labor.
49.24.100 - Lighting appliances.
49.24.130 - Air chambers—Hanging walks.
49.24.150 - Explosives and detonators.
49.24.160 - Air plant—Feed water.
49.24.170 - Electric power requirements.
49.24.190 - Cars, cages, buckets—Employees riding or walking.
49.24.200 - Speed of vehicles.
49.24.210 - Oil supply restricted.
49.24.220 - Explosives, use of—Blasting.
49.24.230 - Firing switch—Warning by blaster.
49.24.240 - Inspection after blast.
49.24.260 - Requirements as to caissons.
49.24.270 - Shields to be provided.
49.24.280 - Caissons to be braced.
49.24.290 - Cages—Hoisting apparatus.
49.24.300 - Buckets in vertical shafts.
49.24.310 - Telephone system for tunnels.
49.24.320 - Location of lights.
49.24.330 - Generators, transformers, etc., to be grounded.
49.24.340 - Electrical voltage.
49.24.350 - Lamps to be held in reserve.
49.24.360 - Insulators required.