730 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 307

TITLE IX—SAFETY, SANITATION, HEALTH, ETC.
CHAPTER XXIV—Mine Accidents.

SEC. 161. There shall be kept at each such mine at a place
convenient to the mouth of the mine, such adequate equipment,
sufficient for the number of persons employed, as may be re-
quired by the Bureau to be used in caring for persons injured
in or about such mine, and for conveying them to their homes
or to a hospital.

SEC. 162. Whenever any person shall receive any injury
in or about any such mine, the mine foreman shall immedi-
ately see that such person receives adequate medical or sur-
gical attention.

SEC. 163. The Bureau shall have power, whenever the
Chief Mine Engineer shall think desirable and the Governor,
upon recommendation of the Commissioner of Labor and
Statistics shall approve, to provide and maintain at a con-
venient point or points within the coal mining fields, not less
than two complete resuscitating outfits and two full rescue
outfits, of type recommended by the United States Bureau of
Mines and approved by the Bureau, which shall be available
for instruction of rescue crews and for immediate use when-
ever needed in rescue work.

SEC. 164. The operator of every gaseous coal mine employing
as many as one hundred men underground shall endeavor to
have trained for rescue work as many as three crews of four

men each from his employees; and in such mines employing
less than one hundred men, at least one such crew of four men;
instructions and facilities to be provided for such crews by the
Bureau, and such crews to be permitted to use the apparatus of
the Bureau for training purposes under regulation of the
Bureau.

SEC. 165. The operator of each coal mine shall report
monthly to the district mine inspector on blanks provided by
the Bureau, such information as the Bureau may require re-
garding all fatal and serious accidents that have occurred in
and about such mine.

SEC. 166. Whenever any district mine inspector receives
notice of the occurrence of a fatal accident occurring at
any mine in this State, it shall be the duty of such inspector
to go immediately to such mine, to inquire fully into the