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MO Rev Stat § 291.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.020 - Location of offices — assistant directors — powers and duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   291.020. Location of offices — assistant directors — powers and duties. — The principal office of the section shall be kept and maintained in Jefferson City, Missouri. In addition to the principal office in Jefferson City there shall be kept and maintained one branch office in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, and one branch office in Kansas City, Missouri, located in such quarters as may be designated by the director with the approval of the secretary of the labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri. Each of such branch offices shall be in charge of an assistant director of the inspection section and each such assistant director shall be empowered to do and perform in the name of the director any act which the director himself might perform, subject however to the supervision and approval of said director of the inspection section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10144, A.L. 1945 p. 1097 § 10142)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13170
MO Rev Stat § 291.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.030 - Employees to be retained and employed under merit system law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   291.030. Employees to be retained and employed under merit system law. — 1. Subject to the provisions of the merit system law, chapter 36, the director of the department of labor and industrial relations shall employ and prescribe the duties and powers of such persons as may be required and may make expenditures within the appropriation therefor as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the law.  2. Any person employed by the inspection section more than six months prior to August 13, 1972, shall be admitted to the qualifying examination covering the position held by him and may be retained at the discretion of the director provided that he attains a passing grade in such examination. Any employee appointed within six months prior to August 13, 1972, and any employee appointed from and after August 13, 1972, shall be appointed subject to the merit system law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10147, A.L. 1945 p. 1097, A.L. 1957 p. 569, A.L. 1965 p. 440, A.L. 1967 p. 382, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1260)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13173
MO Rev Stat § 291.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.040 - Salaries and compensation of subordinate officials.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973   291.040. Salaries and compensation of subordinate officials. — The salaries and compensation of the subordinate officials and employees provided for in section 291.030, shall be paid in like manner and from the same source as the salary of the director of the inspection section, upon vouchers approved by the director. The salaries and compensation shall be as follows: Assistant director of the inspection section, not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars per annum each; chief clerk, not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars per annum; administrative secretary, not exceeding four thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; three special safety inspectors, not to exceed five thousand four hundred dollars per annum each; inspectors, not to exceed five thousand four hundred dollars per annum; secretary, not exceeding four thousand two hundred dollars per annum; and stenographer, not to exceed four thousand two hundred dollars per annum, except that the two stenographers who act as office managers in the two branches shall receive a salary not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars per annum; statistician, not to exceed six thousand six hundred dollars per annum. Such compensation shall be paid the janitor as is fixed by the director, not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per month for the time employed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10148, A.L. 1945 p. 1097, A.L. 1953 p. 524, A.L. 1957 p. 569, A.L. 1965 p. 440, A.L. 1967 p. 382, A.L. 1973 S.B. 253)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13174
MO Rev Stat § 291.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.050 - Traveling expenses to be paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   291.050. Traveling expenses to be paid. — The director of the inspection section, his deputies, inspectors and other assistants and appointees shall be entitled to their actual traveling expenses when traveling within the state of Missouri on necessary business of the inspection section, which said expenses shall be paid on itemized accounts, approved by the director as other sectional expenses are approved and paid. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10145)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13171
MO Rev Stat § 291.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.060 - Power and duties of director and deputies.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   291.060. Power and duties of director and deputies. — 1. The director of the inspection section may divide the state into districts, assign one or more deputy inspectors to each district, and may, at his discretion, change or transfer them from one district to another.  2. It shall be the duty of the director, his assistants or deputy inspectors, to make not less than two inspections during each year of all factories, warehouses, office buildings, freight depots, machine shops, garages, laundries, tenement workshops, bakeshops, restaurants, bowling alleys, pool halls, theaters, concert halls, moving picture houses, or places of public amusement, and all other manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments and workshops. The last inspection shall be completed on or before the first day of October of each year, and the director shall enforce all laws relating to the inspection of the establishments enumerated heretofore in this section, and prosecute all persons for violating the same. Any municipal ordinance relating to said establishments or their inspection shall be enforced by the director.  3. The director, his assistants and deputy inspectors, may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters concerning the enforcement of the various inspection laws relating to these establishments; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to mercantile establishments that employ less than ten persons that are located in towns and cities that have three thousand inhabitants or less. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10179)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13218; 1919 § 6782; 1909 § 7824  CROSS REFERENCES:  Child labor laws, director to enforce, 294.090  County superintendent of welfare, may act as deputy factory inspector, 205.920  Mattresses, laws regulating manufacture and sale, department of social services to enforce, Chap. 421
MO Rev Stat § 291.065 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.065 - Rules and regulations, how made, when effective — commission to hold hearings, exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   291.065. Rules and regulations, how made, when effective — commission to hold hearings, exceptions. — The director may adopt, amend or rescind rules and regulations necessary to implement any of the provisions of this law; provided, however, that no such rule or regulation shall be adopted except after a public hearing before the labor and industrial relations commission to be held after thirty days prior notice by public advertisement of the date, time and place of the hearing and opportunity given to the public to be heard. Thereafter, subject to the provisions of chapter 536, such rules and regulations are to become effective ten days after their approval by the commission, and after copies thereof have been filed in the office of the secretary of state. The adoption, amending or rescinding of rules and regulations relating to the internal management of the section shall not require prior approval of the labor and industrial relations commission, nor public hearing to become effective. ­­-------- (L. 1972 H.B. 1260)
MO Rev Stat § 291.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.070 - Statistics assembled.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   291.070. Statistics assembled. — The inspection section shall collect, assort and systematize statistical details and information relating to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes of the state and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industries of the state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10153, A. 1949 S.B. 1106)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13179; 1919 § 6738; 1909 § 7784
MO Rev Stat § 291.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.080 - Information gathered — blanks furnished.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   291.080. Information gathered — blanks furnished. — The director of the inspection section is hereby directed to collect any information he may deem necessary to carry out the objects of the department as set forth in section 291.070, and is hereby authorized to furnish suitable blanks to managers of public service corporations, county, city and township officers, and to the officers of prisons, penal and reformatory institutions, and it shall be the duty of all such managers and officers to furnish such information as the director may require and which may be in their possession with the least possible delay. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10158)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13184; 1919 § 6745; 1909 § 7791
MO Rev Stat § 291.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.120 - Annual report to governor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   291.120. Annual report to governor. — The labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri, with the assistance of the director of the inspection section of the department of labor and industrial relations shall, on or before the first day of February of each year, present a report in writing to the governor, which shall contain statistical details relating to the operation of the section under sections 196.270 to 196.305, and chapters 290, 292 and 421, including such information as is contemplated by section 291.070. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10154, A.L. 1945 p. 1097)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13180; 1919 § 6740; 1909 § 7786
MO Rev Stat § 291.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.140 - Director to investigate serious accidents — recommendations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   291.140. Director to investigate serious accidents — recommendations. — The director of the inspection section shall make an investigation of all accidents serious enough to require physical rehabilitation, under the provisions of the state board of rehabilitation, and make safety recommendations to the employers of the injured employees. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 440 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 291.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection|Section 291.150 - Director to make annual report to governor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   291.150. Director to make annual report to governor. — The director shall also make and submit to the governor on or before the last Monday in January in each year, a report containing a full and complete account of the investigations, together with any other suggestions and recommendations he considers to be of value to the people of the state, which shall be laid before the next succeeding general assembly. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 440 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 292.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.010 - Notification of occupancy of factory.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.010. Notification of occupancy of factory. — Within one month after the occupancy of any factory, workshop or mill, the occupant shall notify the director in writing, of such occupancy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10199)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13239; 1919 § 6804; 1909 § 7845
MO Rev Stat § 292.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.020 - Equipment to be guarded.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.020. Equipment to be guarded. — The belting, shafting, machines, machinery, gearing and drums in all manufacturing, mechanical and other establishments in this state, when so placed as to be dangerous to persons employed therein or thereabout while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall be safely and securely guarded when possible; if not possible, then notice of its danger shall be conspicuously posted in such establishments. Whenever the director of the inspection section, or his assistant, or deputy, finds that guards have not been installed or notice of danger posted, as required by the provisions of this section, he shall at once, in writing, order the owner or owners, or the person or persons in charge of the machinery, plant, establishment, or place, to make the alterations, additions, or repairs necessary within ten days; and if the said alterations, additions or repairs be not made within ten days from the date of such order, then such failure to make such alterations shall be deemed a violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250, and in addition to the penalties herein prescribed for such violations, the director or his assistant or deputy, shall be and is hereby empowered to, and he shall seal said defective appliance or appliances in such a manner as to render the same inoperative until said order of the director has been complied with. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10182)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13222; 1919 § 6786; 1909 § 7828  (1961) In action under this section for damages for injury to plaintiff's hand caught in wood elevator while working at defendant's charcoal manufacturing plant, plaintiff failed to make a submissible case by showing it was possible to safeguard the dangerous condition, and since plaintiff was aware of the danger, failure to warn was immaterial. Schnieders v. Stegeman (A.), 344 S.W.2d 645.
MO Rev Stat § 292.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.030 - Safety guards.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.030. Safety guards. — All power-driven circular saws must be provided with safety guards which raise and lower automatically for various thicknesses of material, and must also be provided with a kickback dog to prevent the board binding on the saw and flying back. Said appliances shall be subject to the approval of the director of the inspection section, his assistants or deputies. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10183)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13223; 1919 § 6787
MO Rev Stat § 292.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.040 - Minor not to clean or work in certain places about machinery.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   292.040. Minor not to clean or work in certain places about machinery. — No minor shall be required to clean any part of the mill, gearing or machinery while it is in motion in such establishment, nor shall any minor under the age of sixteen years be required to work between the fixed and traversing or the traversing parts of any machine while it is in motion by the action of steam, water, electricity or other mechanical power. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10184, A.L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13224; 1919 § 6788; 1909 § 7829
MO Rev Stat § 292.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.050 - Openings to be guarded.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.050. Openings to be guarded. — The openings of all hatchways, elevators and wellholes upon every floor of every manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile or public building in this state shall be protected by good and sufficient trapdoors or self-closing hatches or safety catches, or strong guard rails at least three feet high, and all due diligence shall be used to keep such trapdoors closed at all times, except when in actual use by the occupant of the building having the use and control of the same. Whenever the director of the inspection section, or one of his assistants or deputies, finds any violations of the foregoing requirement to guard hatchways, elevators and wellholes, he shall at once, in writing, notify the owner or owners thereof, or the person or persons in charge of said appliance or appliances, to make the necessary alterations, additions or repairs within ten days; and if said alterations, additions or repairs are not made within ten days from the date of such notice, the director or his assistant or deputy, shall seal such appliance or appliances in such a manner as to render the same inoperative until there has been compliance with the order of the director. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10185)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13225; 1919 § 6789; 1909 § 7830  (1978) This statute is only for protection of employees in building where elevator is located and does not preempt the field of elevator safety for municipalities to make regulations for the health and safety of the general public. Temple Building v. Building Code Board of Appeals of the City of Kansas City (A.), 567 S.W.2d 406.
MO Rev Stat § 292.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.060 - Fire escapes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.060. Fire escapes. — All manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishments in this state, of two or more stories in height, in which twenty or more persons are employed above the first floor thereof, shall be provided with at least one or more outside iron fire escapes. For every twenty persons employed on every floor above the second floor of such establishment, there shall be one rope or portable fire escape, and each story shall be amply supplied with means of extinguishing fire. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10186)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13226; 1919 § 6790; 1909 § 7831  CROSS REFERENCE:  Fire escapes on buildings generally, Chap. 320
MO Rev Stat § 292.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.070 - Doors to open outward, not to be bolted, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.070. Doors to open outward, not to be bolted, when. — In all such establishments the main doors, both inside and outside, shall open outwardly, when the director, in writing, so directs; and no outside or inside door of any building wherein labor is employed shall be so locked, bolted or otherwise fastened during the hours of labor as to prevent egress. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10187)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13227; 1919 § 6791; 1909 § 7832  CROSS REFERENCE:  Doors to certain buildings to open outwardly, 320.070
MO Rev Stat § 292.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.080 - Explosives not to be placed near egress.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.080. Explosives not to be placed near egress. — No explosive or inflammable compound shall be used in any establishment in this state where labor is employed, in such place or manner as to obstruct or render hazardous the egress of operatives in case of fire. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10189)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13229; 1919 § 6793; 1909 § 7834
MO Rev Stat § 292.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.090 - Scaffolding — warning to those near building.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.090. Scaffolding — warning to those near building. — All scaffolds or structures used in or for the erection, repairing or taking down of any kind of building shall be well and safely supported, and of sufficient width, and so secured as to insure the safety of persons working thereon, or passing under or about the same, against the falling therein, or the falling of such materials or articles as may be used, placed or deposited thereon. All persons engaged in the erection, repairing or taking down of any kind of building shall exercise due caution and care so as to prevent injury or accident to those at work or nearby. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10198)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13238; 1919 § 6802; 1909 § 7843
MO Rev Stat § 292.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.110 - Ventilation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.110. Ventilation. — All manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other establishments in this state shall be so ventilated as to render harmless all impurities, as near as may be. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10192)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13232; 1919 § 6796; 1909 § 7837
MO Rev Stat § 292.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.120 - Prevention of dust, smoke and gas.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.120. Prevention of dust, smoke and gas. — Every person, firm or corporation using any polishing wheel or machine of any character which generates dust, smoke or poisonous gases in its operation, shall provide each and every such wheel or machine with a hood, which shall be connected with a blower or suction fan of sufficient power to carry off said dust, smoke and gases and prevent its inhalation by those employed about said wheel or machine; and any violation of this section is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and a person, firm or corporation so violating this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense. It shall be the duty of the director of the inspection section and his assistants and deputies to see that this section is enforced and to prosecute any violations thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10194)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13234; 1919 § 6798; 1909 § 7839
MO Rev Stat § 292.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.130 - Director may order fan installed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.130. Director may order fan installed. — In all establishments in this state wherein labor is employed, where any process is carried on by which dust or smoke is generated, the director of the inspection section and his assistants and deputies shall have the power and the authority to order that a fan or some other contrivance be put in to prevent the inhalation of such dust or smoke by employees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10195)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13235; 1919 § 6799; 1909 § 7840
MO Rev Stat § 292.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.140 - Overcrowding in factories prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.140. Overcrowding in factories prohibited. — Where, in the opinion of the director, any establishment wherein labor is employed is so overcrowded with employees as to endanger health or safety, the director of the inspection section, when supported in his opinion by the opinion of some reputable physician, shall be authorized and empowered to prohibit such overcrowding. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10196)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13236; 1919 § 6800; 1909 § 7841