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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.180 - Health and safety of employees to be protected — director may seal machinery, when.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.180. Health and safety of employees to be protected — director may seal machinery, when. —
Whenever the director of the inspection section or one of his assistants or deputies, finds that the heating, lighting, ventilation or sanitary arrangements of any establishment where labor is employed is such as to be dangerous to the health or safety of employees therein or thereat, or the means of egress, in case of fire or other disaster, are not sufficient, or that the building, or any part thereof, is unsafe, or that the belting, shafting, gearing, elevators, drums or other machinery are located so as to be dangerous to employees, and not sufficiently guarded, or that the vats, pans, ladles or structures filled with molten or hot liquid, or any furnace, be not sufficiently surrounded with proper safeguards, or the platforms, passageways and other arrangements around, in or about any railroad yard or switch be such as to probably lead to injury or accident to those employed in, around, or about any such establishment or place, shall at once, in writing, order the owner or owners, or the person or persons in charge of such establishment or place to make the alterations or additions necessary within ten days; and if such alterations or additions 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 manner as to render the same inoperative until said order of the inspector has been complied with.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10197)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13237; 1919 § 6801; 1909 § 7842
CROSS REFERENCES:
Food handling establishments, sanitation requirements, 196.190 to 196.271
Inspection of mines and safety of miners, powers and duties of mine inspectors, Chap. 293
Public service commission, powers and duties in relation to health and safety of employees and public, 386.310
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.190 - All accidents to be reported.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.190. All accidents to be reported. —
All accidents in manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishments or places within this state where labor is employed which prevent the injured person or persons from returning to work within four days after the injury, or which result in death, shall be reported by the person in charge of such establishment or place to the director of the inspection section or to one of the assistant or deputy inspectors provided for by law, and also to the city or county physician, when there be such an officer, which notice may be given by mail.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10181)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13221; 1919 § 6785; 1909 § 7827
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.200 - Offenses.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.200. Offenses. —
It shall be unlawful and deemed a violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250 for any person to break, remove, alter or otherwise render ineffective, or to aid or abet or cause the same to be done, any guards installed, or the seal of any inspector affixed in accordance with the provisions of sections 292.010 to 292.250.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10200)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13240; 1919 § 6805
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.210 - Violation a misdemeanor — fines.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.210. Violation a misdemeanor — fines. —
Any person or persons, firm or corporation, being the owner, agent, lessee or occupant of any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile, or other establishment, business or calling in this state to which sections 292.010 to 292.250 apply, or any employee therein or thereat, who shall violate, or aid or abet in violating, any of the provisions of sections 292.010 to 292.250, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, be fined for the first offense not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and for each subsequent offense, not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be committed to the common jail of the county or city in which the offense was committed until such fine and costs are fully paid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10201)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13241; 1919 § 6806; 1909 § 7846
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.220 - Proceedings against whom when violated by corporation.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.220. Proceedings against whom when violated by corporation. —
When any of the provisions of sections 292.010 to 292.250 are violated by a corporation, proceedings may be had against any of the officers or agents of such corporation who in any way participated in such violation by the corporation of which they are the officers or agents, and, upon conviction, such officers or agents shall be subject to the same penalty as in case of individuals so offending.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10202)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13242; 1919 § 6807; 1909 § 7847
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.230 - Prosecution where violation of other laws.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.230. Prosecution where violation of other laws. —
In case of an offense which is a violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250 and of some other law of this state, then the director or assistant director may elect under which law he will prosecute; but where an offense is in violation of some other law of this state in relation to the protection of employees, but is not covered by sections 292.010 to 292.250, then it shall be the duty of the director or assistant director to prosecute for all such offenses under the law violated.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10206)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13246; 1919 § 6811; 1909 § 7851
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.240 - Fines, where paid.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.240. Fines, where paid. —
All fines collected for violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250 shall be paid into the common school fund of the county in which the offense was committed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10203)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13243; 1919 § 6808; 1909 § 7848
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.250 - Duty of prosecuting attorney.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.250. Duty of prosecuting attorney. —
It is hereby made the express duty of the prosecuting attorney of each county or city in this state to lend all possible aid in all prosecutions for violation of the provisions of sections 292.010 to 292.250.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10204)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13244; 1919 § 6809; 1909 § 7849
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.280 - Inspection — duty and power of director of inspection section.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.280. Inspection — duty and power of director of inspection section. —
The director of the inspection section is hereby required to at least twice a year thoroughly inspect each foundry in this state wherein four or more men are employed, and the said director shall have the power and authority by order to require the provision of section 292.260 to be carried out.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10209)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13250; 1919 § 6815
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.290 - Penalty.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.290. Penalty. —
Any corporation, company or person failing to comply with an order made by the director of the inspection section to provide the facilities enumerated in section 292.260 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10210)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13251; 1919 § 6816
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.300 - Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.300. Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases. —
That every employer of labor in this state engaged in carrying on any work, trade or process which may produce any illness or disease peculiar to the work or process carried on, or which subjects the employee to the danger of illness or disease incident to such work, trade or process, to which employees are exposed, shall for the protection of all employees engaged in such work, trade or process, adopt and provide approved and effective devices, means or methods for the prevention of such industrial or occupational diseases as are incident to such work, trade or process.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10211)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13252; 1919 § 6817
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.310 - Articles considered dangerous to health.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.310. Articles considered dangerous to health. —
The carrying on of any process, or manufacture, or labor in this state in which antimony, arsenic, brass, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, zinc, their alloys or salts or any poisonous chemicals, minerals, acids, fumes, vapors, gases, or other substances, are generated or used, employed or handled by the employees in harmful quantities, or under harmful conditions, or come in contact with in a harmful way, are hereby declared to be especially dangerous to the health of the employees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10212)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13253; 1919 § 6818
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.320 - Employees to be furnished with clothing — respirators to be used while at work.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.320. Employees to be furnished with clothing — respirators to be used while at work. —
Every employer in this state to which sections 292.300 to 292.440 apply shall provide for and place at the disposal of the employees so engaged, and shall maintain in good condition without cost to the employees, working clothes to be kept and used exclusively by such employees while at work and all employees therein shall be required at all times while they are at work to use and wear such clothing; and in all processes of manufacture or labor referred to in this section which are productive of noxious or poisonous dusts, adequate and approved respirators shall be furnished and maintained by the employer in good condition and without cost to the employees, and such employees shall use such respirators at all times while engaged in any work productive of noxious or poisonous dusts.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10213)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13254; 1919 § 6819
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.330 - Employees to be examined monthly by physician.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.330. Employees to be examined monthly by physician. —
Every employer engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture referred to in section 292.310 shall, as often as once every calendar month, cause all employees who come into direct contact with the poisonous agencies or injurious processes referred to in section 292.310, to be examined by a competent licensed and reputable physician for the purpose of ascertaining if there exists in any employee any industrial or occupational disease or illness or any disease or illness due or incident to the character of the work in which the employee is engaged.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10214)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13255; 1919 § 6820
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.340 - Physician to make report to department of health and senior services — penalty for failure.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.340. Physician to make report to department of health and senior services — penalty for failure. —
It is hereby made the duty of any licensed physician who shall make a physical examination of any employee under the provisions of section 292.330, to make within twenty-four hours a triplicate report thereof to the department of health and senior services of the state of Missouri upon blanks to be furnished by said department upon request, and if any such disease or illness is found, the physician shall so report, and if any such disease is found, the report shall state the name and address and business of such employer and the nature of the disease in precise and definite terms of all the diseases or illness with which the employee is afflicted and the probable extent and duration thereof, the name and business of employer, and the last place and length of employment; provided, that the failure of any such physician to receive blanks from the department of health and senior services for making such a report shall not excuse the physician from making the report as herein required. Any physician who shall fail to make a report as required by this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, and in each case shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid unless otherwise discharged by due process of law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10215)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13256; 1919 § 6821
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.350 - Duty of director of department of health and senior services.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.350. Duty of director of department of health and senior services. —
The director of the department of health and senior services shall, immediately upon receipt of any report from any physician in accordance with the provisions of section 292.340, transmit a copy thereof to the director of the inspection section, and a copy to the superintendent of the factory in which the employee is supposed to have contracted his ailment.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10216)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13257; 1919 § 6822
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.360 - Employer to provide dressing rooms, lavatories.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.360. Employer to provide dressing rooms, lavatories. —
Every employer engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310, shall provide, separate and apart from the workshop in which such employees are engaged, a dressing room and lavatory for the use of such employees who are exposed to poisonous or injurious dusts, fumes and gases, and such lavatory shall be kept and maintained in a hygienic and sanitary manner and provided with a sufficient number of basins or spigots with adequate washing facilities, including hot and cold water, clean individual towels and soap, and sufficient shower baths, and the dressing room shall be furnished with compartment lockers, so that the ordinary street clothes of such employees shall be kept separate and apart from their working clothes. Male and female employees shall be provided for separately.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10217)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13258; 1919 § 6823
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.370 - Drinking fountains, ice water, to be provided employees.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.370. Drinking fountains, ice water, to be provided employees. —
No employee shall take or be allowed to take any food or drink of any kind into any room or apartment in which any process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310 is carried on, or in which poisonous substances or injurious or noxious fumes, dusts or gases are present as the result of such work or process being carried on in such room or apartment, and the employees shall not remain in any such room or apartment during the time allowed for meals, and suitable provision shall be made and maintained by the employer for enabling the employees to take their meals elsewhere in such place of employment, and a sufficient number of sanitary drinking fountains containing wholesome drinking water, and providing ice for same, shall be provided and maintained for the use of the employees within reasonable access and without cost to them.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10218)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13259; 1919 § 6824
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.380 - Workrooms to be kept in sanitary condition.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.380. Workrooms to be kept in sanitary condition. —
All employers engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310, shall provide and maintain adequate devices for carrying off all poisonous or injurious fumes from any furnaces which may be employed in any such process or manufacture or labor, and shall also provide and maintain adequate and efficient facilities for carrying off all injurious dust, and the floors in any room or apartment where such work or process is carried on shall be kept and maintained in a smooth and hard condition, and no sweeping shall be permitted during working hours except where the floor in such workshop is dampened so as to prevent the raising of dust; and all ore, slag, dross and fume shall be kept in some room or apartment separate from the workrooms occupied by the employees, and all mixing and weighing of such ore, slag, dross or fume shall be done in such separate room or apartment, and all such material shall be dampened or covered before being handled or transported by employees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10219)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13260; 1919 § 6825
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.390 - Prevention of dust.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.390. Prevention of dust. —
When any flues or other apparatus are used in any such process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310, and when such flues or other apparatus are being cleaned or emptied, the employer shall in every case provide and maintain a sufficient, adequate and efficient means or device, such as canvas bags or other approved device, or by dampening the dust, or some other efficient method for catching and collecting the dust and preventing it from unreasonably fouling or polluting the air in which the employees are obliged to work, and, wherever practicable, the dust occasioned in any process or manufacture referred to in section 292.310, and in any polishing or finishing therein, shall be dampened or wet down or covered, and every reasonable precaution shall be adopted by the employer to prevent the unnecessary creation or raising of dust, and all floors shall be washed or scrubbed at least once every working day; and such parts of the work or process as are especially dangerous to the employees, on account of poisonous fumes, dusts and gases, shall, where practicable, be carried on in separate rooms and under cover of some suitable and efficient device to remove the danger to the health of such employees as far as may be reasonably consistent with the manufacturing process, and the fixtures and tools employed in any such process or manufacture or labor, shall be thoroughly washed and cleaned at reasonable intervals.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10220)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13261; 1919 § 6826
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.400 - Hoppers, chutes, to be provided with covering.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.400. Hoppers, chutes, to be provided with covering. —
All hoppers or chutes or similar devices used in the course of any process or manufacture referred to in section 292.310 shall be provided with a hood or covering, and an adequate and efficient apparatus or other proper device for the purpose of drawing away from the employees, noxious, poisonous or injurious dusts, and preventing the employees from coming into unnecessary contact therewith; and all conveyances or receptacles used for the transportation about or the storage in any place where any such process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310 is carried on, shall be properly covered or dampened in such a way as to protect the health of the employees, and no refuse of a dangerous character incident to the work or process carried on in any such place shall be allowed to remain accumulated on the floors thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10221)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13262; 1919 § 6827
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.410 - Duty of director of inspection section.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.410. Duty of director of inspection section. —
It shall be the duty of the director of the inspection section to enforce the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440 and to prosecute all violations of the same before any associate circuit judge or any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, and for that purpose the director of the inspection section and his assistants are empowered to and shall visit and inspect, at least once a year, and at reasonable hours, and as often as practicable, all places of employment covered by the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10222)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13263; 1919 § 6828
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.420 - Notices to be posted in rooms — to contain what.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.420. Notices to be posted in rooms — to contain what. —
For the purpose of disseminating a general knowledge of the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440 and of the dangers to the health of employees in any work or process covered by the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, the employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in which any such work or process is carried on, appropriate notices of the known dangers to the health of any such employees arising from such work or process, and simple instructions as to any known means of avoiding, so far as possible, the injurious consequences thereof, and the director of the inspection section shall have prepared a notice covering the salient features of sections 292.300 to 292.440, and furnish a reasonable number of copies thereof to employers in this state affected by the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, which notice shall be posted by every such employer in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in such place of employment. The notices required by this section shall be printed on cardboard of suitable character and the type used shall be such as to make them easily legible.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10223)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13264; 1919 § 6829
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.430 - Penalty for violation.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.430. Penalty for violation. —
Any person, firm or corporation who shall, personally or through any agent violate any of the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, or who fails or refuses to comply with any of its requirements, or who obstructs or interferes with any examination or investigation being made by the inspection section in accordance with the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, or any employee who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than two hundred dollars and in each case shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid, unless otherwise discharged by due process of law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10224)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13265; 1919 § 6830
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.440 - Employer defined.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.440. Employer defined. —
In sections 292.300 to 292.440, unless the context otherwise requires,
"employer"
includes persons, partnerships and corporations.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10225)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13266; 1919 § 6831
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.450 - Applicability of sections 292.450 to 292.540.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.450. Applicability of sections 292.450 to 292.540. —
The provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540 shall apply only to cities that now have or may hereafter have a population of fifty thousand or more inhabitants.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10234)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13277
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.460 - Outside ladder not to be used, when.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.460. Outside ladder not to be used, when. —
No outside ladder shall be used in connection with the construction, repairing, alteration, removal, or any work whatsoever on any building more than two stories in height, as a stairway.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10227)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13270
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.470 - Stairways to be kept lighted when in use.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.470. Stairways to be kept lighted when in use. —
All stairways used in connection with the construction, repairing, alteration, removal, or any work whatsoever, on any building more than two stories in height, shall be kept lighted at all times during their use and shall have a handrail running the entire length of said stairway.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10228)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13271
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.480 - To provide protection for persons engaged in building.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.480. To provide protection for persons engaged in building. —
That all scaffolds, hoists, stays, ladders, supports, or other mechanical contrivances, erected or constructed by any person, firm or corporation, in this state, for the use in the erection, repairing, alteration, painting, tuckpointing, removal or any work whatsoever of any house, building, bridge, viaduct, or other structure, shall be erected and constructed, in a safe, suitable and proper manner, and shall be so erected and constructed, placed and operated, as to give proper and adequate protection to the life and limb of any person or persons, employed or engaged thereof, or passing under or by the same, and in such manner as to prevent the falling of any material that may be used or deposited thereon. Scaffolding or staging, swung or suspended from an overhead support, more than twenty feet from the ground or floor, shall have where practicable a safety rail properly bolted, secured and braced rising at least thirty-four inches above the floor, or main portion of such scaffolding or staging, and extending along the entire length of the outside and ends thereof, and properly attached thereto, and such scaffolding or staging shall be so fastened as to prevent the same from swaying from the building or structure.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10226)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13269
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.490 - Must build proper supports — when.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.490. Must build proper supports — when. —
If in any house, building or structure in process of erection or construction in this state (except a private house, used exclusively as a private residence), the distance between the enclosing walls is more than twenty-four feet, in the clear, there shall be built, kept and maintained, proper intermediate supports for the joists, which supports shall be either brick walls, or iron or steel columns, beams, trusses, or girders, and the floors in all such houses, buildings, or structures, in process of erection and construction, shall be designed and constructed in such manner as to be capable of bearing in all their parts, in addition to the weight of the floor construction, partitions and permanent fixtures, and mechanisms that may be set upon the same, a live load of fifty pounds for every square foot of surface in such floors, and it is hereby made the duty of the owner, lessee, builder or contractor or subcontractor of such house, building or structure, or the superintendent or agent of either, to see that all the provisions of this section are complied with.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10229)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13272
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.500 - Duty of contractors and owners.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.500. Duty of contractors and owners. —
All contractors and owners when constructing buildings in cities, where the plans and specifications require the floors to be arched between the beams thereof or where the floors or filling in between the floors are fireproof material or brick work, shall complete the flooring or filling in as the building progresses, to not less than within three tiers or beams below that on which the iron work is being erected. If the plans and specifications of such buildings do not require filling in between the beams of floors with brick or fireproof material, all contractors for carpenter work in course of construction shall lay the under flooring thereof or a safe temporary floor on each story as the building progresses to not less than within two stories, or floors below the one to which such building has been erected. Where double floors are not to be used, such owner or contractor shall keep planks over the floor, two stories or floors below where the work is being performed. If the floor beams are of iron or steel the contractor for the iron or steel work of buildings in the course of construction or the owners of such buildings, shall thoroughly plank over the entire tier of iron or steel beams on which the structural iron or steel work is being erected, except such spaces as may be reasonably required for the proper construction of such iron or steel work and the raising and lowering of materials, to be used in the construction of such building, or such spaces as may be designated by the plans and specifications for stairways and elevator shafts.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10231)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13274
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.510 - Shafts or openings to be enclosed — railroads excepted.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.510. Shafts or openings to be enclosed — railroads excepted. —
If the elevating machines or hoisting apparatus are used within a building in the course of constructing for the purpose of lifting material to be used in such construction, the contractor or owner shall cause the shafts or openings on floor where material is loaded to be completely enclosed on all sides; except opening not over eight feet high and the width of the elevating machines for loading purposes. On the other floors the shafts and all other openings shall be enclosed or fenced in on all sides by a substantial barrier or railing at least three feet in height; provided, however, that nothing in sections 292.450 to 292.540 shall apply to railroad corporations or companies who are using their own employees in the construction or repairing of any structure mentioned herein.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10232)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13275
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.520 - Director to enforce provisions.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.520. Director to enforce provisions. —
The chief officer in any city, town or village charged with the enforcement of local building laws, and the director of the inspection section are hereby charged with enforcing the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540; provided, that in all cities in this state, where a local building commissioner is provided for by law, such officer shall be charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540, and in case of his failure, neglect or refusal so to do, the director of the inspection section shall, pursuant to the terms of sections 292.450 to 292.540, enforce the provisions thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10233)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13276
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.530 - Violation — penalty.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.530. Violation — penalty. —
Any owner, contractor, subcontractor, foreman or other person, having charge of the erection, construction, repairing, alteration, removal, or painting of any building, bridge, viaduct or other structure within the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540, shall comply with all the terms thereof and any such owner, contractor, subcontractor, foreman or other person violating any of the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540 shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than three months or more than six months, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10235)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13278
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.540 - Director to make inspection.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.540. Director to make inspection. —
1. Whenever it shall come to the notice of the director of the inspection section, or the local authority in any city, town or village in this state, charged with the duty of enforcing the building laws, that the scaffolding or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, irons or ropes of any swinging or stationary scaffolding, platforms or other similar device, used in the construction, alteration, repairing, removing, cleaning or painting of buildings, bridges or viaducts, within this state are unsafe or liable to prove dangerous to the life or limb of any person the director of the inspection section, or such local authority or authorities shall immediately cause an inspection to be made of such scaffolding, platform or device, or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, iron or other parts connected therewith.
2. If after examination such scaffolding, platform or device or any of such parts, is found to be dangerous to the life or limb of any person, the director of the inspection section, or such local authority shall at once notify the person responsible for its erection or maintenance, of such fact, and warn him against the use, maintenance or operation thereof, and prohibit the use thereof, and require the same to be altered, and reconstructed so as to avoid such danger. Such notice may be served personally upon the person responsible for its erection or maintenance or by conspicuously affixing it to the scaffolding, platform, or other such device, or the part thereof declared to be unsafe. After such notice has been so served or affixed, the person responsible thereof shall cease using and immediately remove such scaffolding, platform or other device, or part thereof, and alter or strengthen it in such manner as to render it safe.
3. The director of the inspection section, or any of his deputies, or such local authority, whose duty it is, under the terms of sections 292.450 to 292.540, to examine or test any scaffolding, platform or other similar device, or part thereof, required to be erected and maintained by this section, shall have free access at all reasonable hours, to any building, or structures, or premises containing such scaffolding, platform or other similar device, or parts thereof, or where they may be in use.
4. All swinging and stationary scaffolding, platforms, and other devices shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum weight required to be depended therein, or placed thereon, when in use, and such swinging scaffolding, platform or other device, shall not be so overloaded or overcrowded as to render the same unsafe or dangerous.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10230)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13273
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.560 - Sale of tenement-made articles prohibited.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.560. Sale of tenement-made articles prohibited. —
No person, firm or corporation shall knowingly sell or expose for sale any of the articles mentioned herein when such articles were made in violation of sections 292.550 to 292.570; and the director of the inspection section, his deputy or any officer appointed to enforce the provisions of sections 292.550 to 292.570, who shall find any such articles made in violation of the provisions of sections 292.550 to 292.570, or who shall find that the articles herein mentioned are made under unclean or unhealthy conditions, shall conspicuously affix thereto a label containing the words "tenement made" or "made under unhealthy conditions", as the case may be, printed in plain letters on a tag not less than two inches in length, and it shall be unlawful to remove such tag except by the permission of the director of the inspection section or the officer under whose direction such label was affixed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10237)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13280; 1919 § 6835; 1909 § 7854
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.570 - Penalty.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.570. Penalty. —
Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of the articles herein mentioned who shall violate or who shall fail to comply with the provisions of sections 292.550 to 292.570, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10238)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13281; 1919 § 6836; 1909 § 7855
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.600 - Definitions.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
292.600. Definitions. —
As used in sections 292.600 to 292.625, the following terms mean:
(1)
"Department"
, the state department of public safety;
(2)
"District or local emergency planning committee"
, a committee established by the Missouri emergency response commission and may include one or more counties or cities in Missouri;
(3)
"Employer"
, a person engaged in business and including the state and any political subdivision thereof;
(4)
"Hazardous substance"
, any substance which is:
(a) Listed in Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know, of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499; or
(b) A pesticide for which a registration has been cancelled or suspended under the provisions of section 281.260 or the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1972, Public Law 92-516, as amended; or
(c) An extremely hazardous substance or hazardous chemical as defined in Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know, as enacted under the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499; and which an employer stores, uses or produces, but shall not include any substance which is a food or drug as defined in the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C., Section 321, et seq.; packaged for distribution to, and used by, the general public, including any product used by an employer in the same form, approximate amount, concentration, and manner as it is sold to the consumer; present in a physical state, volume, or concentration for which there is no valid and substantial evidence that a significant risk to human health may occur from exposure; used in a laboratory for experimentation, research, development or testing by or under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual, provided that the toxic substance or mixture is not produced in the laboratory for commercial purposes;
(5)
"Person"
, one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives or any organized group of persons.
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(L. 1985 H.B. 507 & 139 § 1, A.L. 1987 H.B. 655, A.L. 1988 S.B. 765, A.L. 1993 H.B. 550)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.607 - Chemical emergency preparedness fund established — reversion to general revenue, prohibited.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
292.607. Chemical emergency preparedness fund established — reversion to general revenue, prohibited. —
1. The "Chemical Emergency Preparedness Fund" is hereby established. Funds appropriated under section 292.604, private donations, federal grants, contracts, and other funds provided to the commission and the department for distribution as provided in section 292.604 shall be placed in the chemical emergency preparedness fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, funds in the chemical emergency preparedness fund shall not revert to the general revenue fund. Interest accruing to the fund shall be part of the fund.
2. The chemical emergency preparedness fund shall, upon appropriation, be used to implement the provisions of sections 292.600 to 292.625.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 77, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.610 - Employer's trade secrets, department to protect — disclosure of by public employees and officers, penalty.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
292.610. Employer's trade secrets, department to protect — disclosure of by public employees and officers, penalty. —
1. Trade secret claims by an employer shall be made to the department and subject to the same protection as and treated in a manner similar to and authorized by Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know, of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499.
2. No officer, employee, or agent of any state or municipal department, agency, commission members, members and employees of district and local emergency planning committees, or authority shall disclose to anyone in any manner any record or portions thereof protected pursuant to the provisions of sections 292.600 to 292.625 and Title III, Emergency Response and Community Right-to-Know, of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499, which are within his custody or knowledge for as long as such record or portions thereof shall be so exempted or until a final judicial denial of such exemption is rendered. Any person who violates any provision of this section commits the crime of misuse of official information and may be punished as provided in section 576.050.
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(L. 1985 H.B. 507 & 139 § 3, A.L. 1988 S.B. 765)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.613 - Rules and regulations, department to promulgate — procedure.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
292.613. Rules and regulations, department to promulgate — procedure. —
The department shall have the authority to promulgate, after public hearing, rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of sections 292.600 to 292.625 and to meet the reporting requirements of Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know, of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024.
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(L. 1988 S.B. 765, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)