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 36-01 - Rules And Regulations Governing Approvals And Permits, Explosives And Ventilation For The Construction Of Shaft And/or Slope Operations In The State Of West Virginia › Section 36-1-28 - Duties - Shaft and/or Slope Examiner

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
28.1. 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/her making his/her pre-shift examination.
28.2. It shall be the duty of the shaft
				and/or slope examiner to examine each shaft and/or slope within three (3) hours
				prior to the beginning of each shift and before any worker on such shift enters
				the shaft and/or slope.
28.3. In
				making a pre-shift examination, the shaft and/or slope examiner shall examine
				each working place with an approved permissible methane detector for methane
				gas and examine the sides of shafts and ribs and roof of all slopes.
28.4. Should the shaft and/or slope examiner
				find an accumulation of methane gas in excess of one (1) percent or a condition
				heshe considers dangerous to persons, heshe 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.
28.5. The shaft and/or slope examiner shall
				place his/her initials, date and time within twenty-five (25) feet of the
				places heshe examines.
28.6. When
				the shaft and/or slope examiner finds the shaft and/or slope safe, heshe shall
				indicate so by changing the danger sign, red in color, to a safe sign, green in
				color, indicating the shaft and/or slope is safe, and that employees going on
				shift may enter such shaft and/or slope.
28.7. The shaft and/or slope examiner shall
				record the resultsof his/her pre-shift examination with ink or indelible pencil
				in a book prescribed by the Director, kept for such purpose at a place on the
				surface of the shaft and/or slope designated by the shaft and/or slope
				operator.
28.8. All records as
				prescribed herein shall be open for inspection by interested persons and such
				employees working at such shaft and/or slope operation.
28.9. 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.
28.10. 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 this rule,
				except under his/her 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/her initial pre-shift examination each day:
				Provided, That when personnel are regularly working on a shift and workers are
				inside such shaft another shaft worker is not required to accompany him/her.