Mining Accidents and Their Prevention |
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aforesaid agent or manager agent or operator air-ways apparatus apply appointed approved Author bituminous coal blasting boiler brattice cage cause certificate charge coal mines coal-dust colliery comply condition connected coroner court danger Davy lamp discharge district inspector dust duties employed therein escapement shaft experiments explosion or accident feet fire fire-damp foreman FREDERICK ABEL furnished Garrett counties gases goaves Governor hereby hoisting hundred dollars inflammable injury inquest inspec inspection inspector of coal inspector of mines June 16 lamp less machinery malfeasance in office map or plan means miners mining engineer misdemeanor months Mueseler lamp necessary notice occurred offence operator or superintendent owner or agent paid permitted person or persons persons employed practical purpose roof safe safety safety-lamps seam Secretary secure shaft or slope shafts or outlets special rules strata sufficient thereof thereto timber tion ventilation weighing workmen
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Page 347 - Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any family for manufacturing articles for such family use. None of...
Page 331 - For any injury to person or property, occasioned by any willful violations of this act or willful failure to comply with any of its provisions, a right of action shall accrue to the party injured for any direct damages sustained thereby...
Page 240 - ... 16 in the county jail not less than thirty days, nor more than one year, or may be punished by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Page 353 - By the statute in question it is provided that "no employee shall be required, or permitted, to work in a biscuit, bread, or cake bakery, or confectionery establishment, more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day...
Page 332 - ... is endangered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Page 272 - ... two separate outlets, separated by natural strata of not less than one hundred feet in breadth, by which shafts or outlets distinct means of ingress and egress are always available to the persons employed in the mine, but...
Page 385 - ... deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 335 - The owner or agent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, on a scale of one hundred feet to the inch.
Page 242 - State, and the works and machinery belonging thereto at all reasonable times, by night or day, but so as not to unnecessarily obstruct or impede the working of the mine, and the owner or agent of such mine is hereby required to furnish the means necessary for such entry and inspection; of which inspection the inspector shall make a record...
Page 389 - ... if at any meeting the chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same the directors present shall choose some one. of their number to be chairman of such meeting.