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352.650 Mine maps -- Posting -- Escape drills -- Frequency -- Locations -Information.
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A map shall be posted or readily accessible to all miners in each working
section, and in each area where mechanized equipment is being installed or
removed. The map shall show the designated escapeways from the working
section to the locations where miners must travel to satisfy the escapeway drill
specified in subsection (4) of this section.
A map showing the main escapeways shall be posted at the surface location of
the licensed facility where miners congregate.
All maps shall be kept up-to-date. Any changes in routes of travel, locations of
doors, or directions of airflow shall be shown on the maps by the end of the
shift. Miners affected by the changes shall be informed of the changes before
entering the underground areas of the mine. Miners on a shift underground
when any change is made shall be immediately notified of the change.
At least once every ninety (90) days, each miner, including those miners with
working stations located between the working sections and main escapeways,
shall participate in a practice escapeway drill.
During the drill, miners that do not have working stations located between the
working sections and the main escapeways shall travel the greater distance of
the two (2) following choices:
(a) A path from the primary or alternate escapeway from the miner's working
section or from the area where mechanized mining equipment is being
installed or removed, to the area where the split of air ventilating the
working section intersects a main air course; or
(b) A path which is two thousand (2,000) feet outby the section loading point.
Those miners who have working stations located between the working sections
and the main escapeways shall participate in the escapeway drill by traveling in
the primary or alternate escapeway for a distance of two thousand (2,000) feet
from their working station toward the nearest escape facility or drift opening.
(a) At least once every six (6) weeks and for each shift, at least two (2)
miners on each coal-producing working section who work on that section,
accompanied by the section foreman, shall participate in a practice
escapeway drill and shall travel the primary or alternate escapeway:
1.
From the location specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of this
section to the surface;
2.
To mechanical escape facilities; or
3.
To an underground entrance to a shaft or slope to the surface.
(b) Systematic rotation of section personnel shall be used so that all miners
participate in this drill.
(a) At least once every six (6) weeks, at least two (2) miners on each
maintenance shift and a foreman or assistant foreman shall participate in
a practice escapeway drill and shall travel the primary or alternate
escapeway:
1.
From the location specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of this
section to the surface;
2.
To mechanical escape facilities; or
3.
To an underground entrance to a shaft or slope to the surface.
(b) Systematic rotation of maintenance personnel and working sections shall
be used so that all miners participate in the drill and so that the
escapeways from all sections are traveled.
(9) For all escapeway drills required by this section, an escapeway drill shall not
be conducted in the same escapeway as the drill proceeding immediately
thereafter.
(10) Before or during practice escapeway drills, miners shall be informed of the
locations of fire doors, check curtains, changes in the routes of travel, caches
of self-rescuers, and plans for diverting smoke from escapeways.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 3, effective July 12, 2006.
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