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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 352 MINING REGULATIONS
352.330 General duties of mine foreman -- Duty of licensee.
Download pdfthe airways, traveling ways, working places, pumps and drainage, and shall see that as the
miners advance their excavations proper breakthroughs are made as required by law to
properly ventilate the mine. He shall see that employees are provided with sufficient
props, cap pieces, and timbers of suitable size, which shall be delivered to the working
place and shall see that the props are cut as square as practicable at both ends and as near
as practicable to the proper length required or designated for the places where they are to
be used. The mine foreman shall see that the water is drained as nearly as practicable out
of the working places, and that the working places are kept as free from water as
practicable during working hours. He shall see that every person employed to work in the
mine is, before beginning to work, instructed in the particular danger incident to his work
in the mine and furnished a copy of the rules of the mine. He shall immediately report all
violations of the mining laws to the operator or superintendent, who shall report the
violations to the mine inspector. History: Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 303, sec. 31. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739-42.
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