West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 36 - Coal Mine Health And Safety › Title 36 - LEGISLATIVE EXEMPT RULE BOARD OF COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY › Series 36-03 - Rules And Regulations Governing The Certification And Statutory Duties Of Shaft And/or Slope Superintendent-Examiner-Foreman And Examiner-Foreman › Section 36-3-10 - Duties - Shaft And/Or Slope Examiner

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
10.1. It shall be the duty of the shaft
				and/or slope examiner, acting as such, to prepare the danger signal (a separate
				signal for each shift) with red color at the shaft and/or slope entrances prior
				to his making his pre-shift examination.
10.2. It shall be the duty of the shaft
				and/or slope examiner to examine each shaft and/or slope within ninety (90)
				minutes prior to the beginning of each shift and before any worker on such
				shift enters the shaft and/or slope.
10.3. In making a pre-shift examination the
				shaft and/or slope examiner shall examine each working place with a permissible
				flame safety lamp for oxygen deficiency, and each working place with an
				approved permissible methane detector for methane gas, examine sides of shafts
				and ribs and roof of all slopes.
10.4. Should the shaft and/or slope examiner
				find an accumulation of methane gas in excess of one (1) percent or a condition
				he considers dangerous to persons, he shall place a conspicuous danger sign at
				all entrances to such place or places. If a danger sign is posted by the shaft
				and/or slope examiner only persons authorized by the shaft and/or slope
				examiner, operator or agent shall enter such places for the purpose of
				eliminating the dangerous condition.
10.5. The shaft and/or slope examiner shall
				place his initials, date and time within twenty-five (25) feet of the places he
				examines.
10.6. When the shaft
				and/or slope examiner finds the shaft and/or slope safe he shall indicate so by
				changing the danger sign, red in color, to a safe sign, green in color,
				indicating the shaft and/or slope safe, the employees going on shift may enter
				such shaft and/or slope.
10.7. The
				shaft and/or slope examiner shall record the results of his pre-shift
				examination with ink or indelible pencil in a book prescribed by the director
				of the Department of Energy, kept for such purpose at a place on the surface of
				the shaft and/or slope designated by the shaft and/or slope operator.
10.8. All records as prescribed herein, shall
				be open for inspection by interested persons and such employees working at such
				shaft and/or slope operation.
10.9.
				Except for those persons already on assigned duty only the shaft and/or slope
				operator or agent shall be permitted beyond the danger signal, while red in
				color, until the shaft and/or slope has been examined by the shaft and/or slope
				examiner.
10.10. No person shall
				enter such shaft for any purpose at the beginning of work upon each shift
				therein until such signal has been changed to green in color by the examiner,
				as provided by these rules and regulations, except under his direction another
				designated shaft worker shall ride with such examiner and remain in the bucket,
				to relay signals to the hoist operator in case of an emergency, during his
				initial pre-shift examination each day:
Provided,
That when men
				are regularly working on a shift and workers are inside such shaft another
				shaft worker is not required to accompany him.