STATISTICS AND INFORMATION. 2Y89

1922, ch. 307, sec. 85.

86. At each shaft or slope, subject to regulation by the Bureau, there
shall be provided and maintained a substantial structure of adequate height
and capacity, to sustain pulleys, cables and loads; only steel or iron wire
cable or cable approved by the Bureau shall be used for such hoisting;
and the hoisting apparatus shall be completely equipped with adequate
and approved drums, brakes, indicators and safety devices; hoisting cages
shall be strongly built, protected, and equipped with approved devices to
prevent persons or property from falling therefrom or therewith, or from
other mishap; such cages shall not be operated faster than six hundred
feet per minute, when men are being hoisted; no more passengers shall be
transported upon any such cage at any one time than are permitted for
such cage by written certificate of the district mine inspector, issued an-
nually or oftener if necessary or desirable.

1922, ch. 307, sec, 86.

87. When men are in the bottom of a shaft, rock or coal shall not be
hoisted except in a bucket, cage, or approved lifting device; to be securely
connected to the hoisting rope and so arranged that there shall be no
danger of its tipping while being hoisted or lowered. Regulations shall
be made for installation and use of buckets or other freight hoisting de-
vices. No person except mine officials and repair men, shall be permitted
to ride upon a loaded car or with cars or material of any kind, on either
cage; except that a driver may accompany an animal of which he is in
charge, when such animal, is securely penned by gates or in a suitable box
or in a sling.

1922, ch. 307, sec, 87.

88. Any person disobeying the orders of a gateman given to enforce
the cage passenger permit herein elsewhere provided for, or crowding or
pushing to get on or off any cage and endangering others, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 88.

89. All hoisting apparatus and facilities shall be and be maintained
adequate safely to support a strain equivalent to five times their maximum
load. Every part of such apparatus and facilities shall be examined every
twenty-four hours when any such mine is being operated, by a competent
representative of the operator, and a detailed report of their condition
written in the mine foreman's record book, dated and signed; which report
shall especially note any material defects or needed repairs, which shall
be remedied immediately and until so remedied no further use of such
apparatus shall be permitted. In addition to his own inspection of such
apparatus and facilities, the district mine inspector shall at each inspec-
tion visit examine such written reports and ascertain whether all repairs
have been made.