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WV Code § 22A-2-57 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-57. No Act Permitted Endangering Security of Mine; Search for Intoxicants, Matches, etc.

(a) No miner, worker or other person shall knowingly injure any shaft, lamp, instrument, air course, or brattice, or obstruct or throw open airways, or carry matches or open lights in the places worked by safety lights, or disturb any part of the machinery or appliances, open a door closed for directing ventilation and not close it again, or enter any part of a mine against caution, or disobey any order of any mine foreman or assistant mine foreman given in carrying out any of the provisions of this section.(b) Open lights, smoking and smokers' articles, including matches, are prohibited in all mines. No person shall at any time enter mines with or carry therein any matches, pipes, cigars, cigarettes or any device for making lights or fire not authorized or approved. The operator shall at frequent intervals search, or cause to be searched, any person, including his clothing and material belongings, entering or about to enter the mine, or inside the mine, to prevent such person from taking or carrying therein any of the above-mentioned articles.(c) No person shall at any time carry into any mine any intoxicants or enter any mine while under the influence of intoxicants.
WV Code § 22A-2-59 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-59. First-Aid Equipment

(a) Each operator of an underground coal mine shall maintain a supply of first-aid equipment at each of the following locations:(1) At the mine dispatcher’s office and on the surface in close proximity to the mine entry.(2) At the bottom of each regularly traveled slope or shaft; however, where the bottom of such slope or shaft is not more than one thousand feet from the surface, such first-aid supplies may be maintained on the surface at the entrance of the mine.(3) At a point in each working section not more than five hundred feet outby the active working face or faces.(b) The first-aid equipment required to be maintained shall include at least the following:(1) One stretcher.(2) One broken-back board.(3) Twenty-four triangular bandages.(4) Eight four-inch bandage compresses.(5) Sixteen two-inch bandage compresses.(6) Twelve one-inch adhesive compresses.(7) One foille.(8) Two cloth blankets.(9) One rubber blanket.(10) Two tourniquets.(11) One one-ounce bottle of aromatic spirits of ammonia.(12) Two inflatable plastic arm splints.(13) Two inflatable plastic leg splints.(14) Six small splints, metal or wooden.(15) Two cold packs.(16) One automated external defibrillator (AED) unit.(c) All first-aid supplies required to be maintained under the section shall be stored in suitable sanitary, dust-tight, moisture-proof containers and such supplies shall be accessible to the miners.(d) No first-aid material shall be removed or diverted without authorization, except in case of accident in or about the mine.(e) On all occasions when a person becomes sick or injured underground to the extent that he or she must go to the surface, he or she shall be accompanied by one or more persons.
WV Code § 22A-2-61 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-61. Coal Storage Bins; Recovery Tunnels; Coal Storage Piles

(a) Coal storage bins hereafter constructed with vertical sides fifty feet or over in height shall be provided with ventilators or louvers or both to provide adequate ventilation. Where roofs are constructed over coal storage bins, adequate ventilation shall be provided by stacks, ventilators, louvers or mechanical means.(b) Where cutting or welding is performed at any location where coal is stored, means of prompt extinguishment of any fire accidentally started shall be provided, and the area where cutting or welding is performed shall be adequately watered down and rock-dusted.(c) A qualified person shall test for methane with a methane detector prior to and during cutting and welding operations inside or underneath a coal storage bin.(d) Electric motors, switches and controls for coal storage bins hereafter acquired shall be of dust-tight construction.(e) Repairs to electric equipment shall not be made when the surrounding atmosphere contains dangerous amounts of gas or dust.(f) Where electric lights are used in recovery tunnels of over one hundred feet in length, the wiring shall be in rigid conduit and shall be enclosed in waterproof receptacles.(g) An escapeway shall be provided from any recovery tunnel hereafter constructed to a safe place on the surface; such escapeway shall be at least thirty inches in diameter and where inclined, a ladder shall be provided to extend full length of the escapeway to facilitate emergency exit.(h) Extreme caution shall be exercised by all employees required to work at or near coal storage piles during coal recovery operations to avoid injury by coal slides or by being in or drawn into a chute.
WV Code § 22A-2-64 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-64. Sealing Permanently Closed or Abandoned Mines

(a) After July 1, 1971, when any coal mine is worked out or indefinitely closed, such mine openings shall be properly sealed within ninety days after the mine is abandoned.(b) Mines temporarily inactive for less than ninety days shall be adequately fenced with conspicuous signs prohibiting the possible entrance of unauthorized persons.(c) Shaft openings shall be effectively capped or filled. Filling shall be for the entire depth of the shaft. Caps shall consist of a six inch thick concrete cap or other equivalent means approved by the director.(d) Caps shall be equipped with a vent pipe at least two inches in diameter extending for a distance of at least fifteen feet above the surface shaft.
WV Code § 22A-2-65 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-65. Mining Close to Abandoned Workings

Any operator working up to an abandoned coal mine may be permitted to work to his property line, if approved by the director, but in such cases precaution must be taken as provided in this article.
WV Code § 22A-2-67 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-67. Written Report of Accident

Whenever any accident occurs in or about any coal mine to any employee or person connected with the mining operation, resulting in personal injury or death, the operator shall, within twenty-four hours, report the same in writing to the director and to the district mine inspector of the district in which the accident occurs, giving full details thereof upon forms furnished by the director.
WV Code § 22A-2-68 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-68. Preservation of Evidence Following Accident or Disaster

Following a mine accident resulting in the death of one or more persons and following any mine disaster, the evidence surrounding such occurrence shall not be disturbed after recovery of bodies or injured persons until an investigation by the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training has been completed.
WV Code § 22A-2-71 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-71. Right of Miner to Refuse to Operate Unsafe Equipment; Procedure; Discrimination

No miner shall be required to operate unsafe equipment. On or before January 1, 1981, the Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety shall by rule or regulation establish a procedure for resolving disputes arising out of the refusal by a miner to operate such alleged unsafe equipment. No action shall be taken against a miner by an operator unless such miner is found to have acted in bad faith and without good cause by the director or his authorized representative.
WV Code § 22A-2-71a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-71a. Right of Miner to Refuse to Work in an Unsafe Area or Unsafe Manner

Any miner has the right to refuse to work in an area or under conditions which he believes to be unsafe.
WV Code § 22A-2-72 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-72. Long Wall and Short Wall Mining

(a) The Legislature finds that new methods of extracting coal known as long wall or short wall mining are being used in this state. The board of coal mine health and safety shall investigate or cause to be investigated the technology, procedures and techniques used in such mining methods and shall promulgate by January 1, 1981, and continuously update the same, rules governing long wall and short wall mining, which rules shall have as their paramount objective, the health and safety of the persons involved in such operations, and which said rules shall include, but not be limited to, the certification of personnel involved in such operation.(b) The director may modify the application of any provision of this section to a mine if the director determines that an alternative method of achieving the result of such provision exists which will at all times guarantee no less than the same measure of protection afforded the miners of such mine by such provision, or that the application of such provision to such mine will result in a diminution of the health of, or safety to, the miners in such mine. The director shall give notice to the operator and the representative of miners in the affected mine, as appropriate, and shall cause such investigation to be made as he or she deems appropriate. Such investigation shall provide an opportunity for a hearing, at the request of such operator or representative or other interested party, to enable the operator and the representative of miners in such mine or other interested party to present information relating to the modification of such provision. The director shall issue a decision incorporating his or her findings of fact therein, and send a copy thereof to the operator and the representative of the miners, as appropriate. Any such hearing shall be of record.
WV Code § 22A-2-73 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-73. Construction of Shafts, Slopes, Surface Facilities and the Safety Hazards Attendant Therewith; Duties of Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety to Promulgate Rules; Time Limits Therefor

The Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety shall investigate or cause to be investigated the technology, procedures and techniques used in the construction of shafts, slopes, surface facilities, and the safety hazards, attendant therewith, and shall promulgate rules governing the construction of shafts and slopes; and shall promulgate by January 1, 1981, rules governing the construction of surface facilities.The Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety shall continuously update such rules governing the construction of shafts, slopes and surface facilities, which rules shall have as their paramount concern, the health and safety of the persons involved in such operations, and such rules shall include, but not be limited to, the certification of all supervisors, the certification and training of hoist operators and shaft workers, the certification of blasters and approval of plans. The provisions of such rules may be enforced against operators and construction companies in accord with the provisions of article one of this chapter. For purposes of this chapter, a construction company is an operator.
WV Code § 22A-2-74 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-74. Control of Respirable Dust

Each operator shall maintain the concentration of respirable dust in the mine atmosphere during each shift to which miners in active workings of such mine are exposed below such level as the board may establish. The board may promulgate rules governing respirable dust, including, but not limited to, dust standards, sampling procedures, sampling devices, equipment and sample analysis by using the data gathered by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration and, or the federal Bureau of Mines.Any operator found to be in violation of such standards shall bring itself into compliance with such standards and rules of the board or the director may thereafter order such operator to discontinue such operation.
WV Code § 22A-2-76 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-76. Reopening Old or Abandoned Mines

No person, without first giving to the director ten days' written notice thereof, shall reopen for any purposes any old or abandoned mine wherein water or mine seepage has collected or become impounded or exists in such manner or quantity that upon the opening of such mine, such water or seepage may drain into any stream or watercourse.Such notice shall state clearly the name or names of the owner or owners of the mine proposed to be opened, its exact location, and the time of the proposed opening thereof.Upon receipt of such notice, the director shall have his or her representative present at the mine at the time designated in the notice for such opening, who has full supervision of the work of opening such mine with full authority to direct the work in such manner as to him or her seems proper and necessary to prevent the flow of mine water or seepage from such mine in such manner or quantity as will kill or be harmful to the fish in any stream or watercourse into which such mine water seepage may flow directly or indirectly.
WV Code § 22A-2-77 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-77. Quarterly Report by Operator of Mine; Exception as to Certain Inactive Mines

On or before the end of each quarter, the operator of each mine, regulated under the provisions of this chapter or article three or four, chapter twenty-two of this code, shall file with the director a report with respect thereto covering the next preceding quarter which shall reflect the number of accidents which have occurred at each such mine, the number of persons employed, the days worked and the actual raw tonnage mined. Quarters are based on a calendar year. Such report shall be made upon forms furnished by the director. Other provisions of this section to the contrary notwithstanding, no such report shall be required with respect to any mine on approved inactive status if no employees were present at such mine at any time during the next preceding calendar month.
WV Code § 22A-2-78 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-78. Examinations to Determine Compliance With Permits

Whenever permits are issued by the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training, frequent examinations shall be made by the mine inspector during the tenure of the permit to determine that the requirements and limitations of the permit are complied with.
WV Code § 22A-2-79 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-79. Provisions of Article Severable

The various provisions of this article shall be construed as separable and severable and, should any of the provisions, sentences, clauses, or parts thereof be construed or held unconstitutional or for any reason be invalid, the remaining provisions of this article shall not be thereby affected.
WV Code § 22A-2-80 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2. Underground Mines|§22A-2-80. Existing Regulations to Be Revised

By August 31, 2019, all existing rules or regulations under authority of this article shall be revised to reflect the changes enacted during the 2019 Regular Session of the Legislature.
WV Code § 22A-2A-101 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-101. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment Authorized

Diesel-powered equipment for use in underground coal mines may only be approved, operated and maintained in accordance with rules, requirements and standards established pursuant to this article.
WV Code § 22A-2A-102 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-102. Control of Diesel Safety and Health Hazards

The purpose of this article is to reduce or eliminate the inherent hazards of electric-powered equipment in underground coal mines while recognizing that the introduction of an internal combustion engine into that environment presents a different set of safety and health risks for miners. The provisions of this article are intended to provide an integrated approach to the control of diesel safety and health hazards in underground coal mines.
WV Code § 22A-2A-201 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-201. Applicability of Definitions

§22A-2A-201. Applicability of definitions.(a) For the purposes of this article, the words or phrases defined in this part have the meanings ascribed to them. These definitions are applicable unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.(b) When used in this article, the words and phrases defined in section two, article one of this chapter have the meaning ascribed to them in that section. Those definitions are applicable to this article unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context in which the word or phrase is used in this article.
WV Code § 22A-2A-202 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-202. Board Defined

Board means the Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety continued by section three, article six of this chapter.
WV Code § 22A-2A-203 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-203. Certificate of Approval Defined

Certificate of approval means a formal document issued by MSHA stating that a complete assembly has met the requirements of part 36, title thirty of the code of federal regulations, 30 C.F.R. § 36.1, et seq., for mobile diesel-powered transportation equipment and authorizing the use and attachment of an official approval plate so indicating.
WV Code § 22A-2A-204 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-204. Commission Defined

Commission means the West Virginia Diesel Equipment Commission created under the provisions of section three hundred one of this article.
WV Code § 22A-2A-204a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-204a. Director Defined

Director means the Director of the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training established in section one, article one of this chapter.
WV Code § 22A-2A-205 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-205. Diesel Fuel Tank Defined

Diesel fuel tank means a closed metal vessel specifically designed for the storage or transport of diesel fuel.
WV Code § 22A-2A-206 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-206. Diesel Fuel Transportation Unit Defined

Diesel fuel transportation unit means a self-propelled or portable wheeled vehicle used to transport a diesel fuel tank.
WV Code § 22A-2A-207 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-207. Diesel Engine Defined

Diesel engine means any compression ignition internal combustion engine using the basic diesel cycle where combustion results from the spraying of fuel into air heated by compression.
WV Code § 22A-2A-208 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-208. Diesel Power Package Defined

Diesel power package means a diesel engine with an intake system, exhaust system and a safety shutdown system installed that meets the specific requirements for MSHA approval of diesel power packages intended for use in approved equipment in areas of underground coal mines where electric equipment is required to be permissible.
WV Code § 22A-2A-209 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-209. Exhaust Emission Defined

Exhaust emission means any substance emitted to the atmosphere from the exhaust port of the combustion chamber of a diesel engine.
WV Code § 22A-2A-210 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-210. Exhaust Emissions Control and Conditioning System Defined

Exhaust emissions control and conditioning system means a device or combination of devices that will collect and treat diesel exhaust emissions at the exhaust port of the engine and will reduce the volume of, or eliminate emissions of, diesel particulate matter, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen in accordance with the requirements and standards of the commission established in accordance with the provisions of section four hundred three of this article.
WV Code § 22A-2A-211 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-211. Msha Defined

“MSHA" means the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.
WV Code § 22A-2A-212 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-212. Permanent Underground Diesel Fuel Storage Facility Defined

Permanent underground diesel fuel storage facility means a facility designed and constructed to remain at one location for the storage or dispensing of diesel fuel, which does not move as mining progresses.
WV Code § 22A-2A-213 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-213. Safety Can Defined

Safety can means a metal container intended for storage, transport or dispensing of diesel fuel, with a nominal capacity of five gallons, listed or approved by a nationally recognized independent testing laboratory.
WV Code § 22A-2A-214 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22A. Miners' Health, Safety and Training|Article 2A. Use of Diesel-Powered Equipment in Underground Coal Mines|§22A-2A-214. Temporary Underground Diesel Fuel Storage Area Defined

Temporary underground diesel fuel storage area means an area of a mine provided for the short-term storage of diesel fuel in a fuel transportation unit, which moves as mining progresses.