Federal Mine Health and Safety Inspection Amendments of 1949: Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H. R. 3023, a Bill Amending Public Law 49, Seventy-seventh Congress, Providing for the Welfare of Coal Miners and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 536 páginas Considers (81) H.R. 3023. |
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... entries . Operators ' representatives may appear before this committee and state that many accidents are caused by carelessness ; however , allow me to point out that the management of a mine is responsible for the employment of miners ...
... entries . Operators ' representatives may appear before this committee and state that many accidents are caused by carelessness ; however , allow me to point out that the management of a mine is responsible for the employment of miners ...
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... entries shall not be less than 6,000 cubic feet a minute . However , the quantity of air reaching the last open crosscut in any pair or set of entries in pillar sec- tions may be less than 6,000 cubic feet a minute , provided that at ...
... entries shall not be less than 6,000 cubic feet a minute . However , the quantity of air reaching the last open crosscut in any pair or set of entries in pillar sec- tions may be less than 6,000 cubic feet a minute , provided that at ...
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... entries and rooms shall be made at intervals consistent with practice in the States where mine operations are conducted . b . Crosscuts between entries shall be closed , except the last one in a pair or set of entries . c . Where ...
... entries and rooms shall be made at intervals consistent with practice in the States where mine operations are conducted . b . Crosscuts between entries shall be closed , except the last one in a pair or set of entries . c . Where ...
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... entries in process of development . Where air- lock doors are provided , there shall be sufficient leakage to prevent accumula- tions of methane between the doors . b . Doors shall be kept closed except when men or equipment is passing ...
... entries in process of development . Where air- lock doors are provided , there shall be sufficient leakage to prevent accumula- tions of methane between the doors . b . Doors shall be kept closed except when men or equipment is passing ...
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... entries connected thereto by open crosscuts shall be rock - dusted . Back entries shall be rock - dusted for at least 1,000 feet outby the junction with the first active entry . Inby 68 FEDERAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY INSPECTION.
... entries connected thereto by open crosscuts shall be rock - dusted . Back entries shall be rock - dusted for at least 1,000 feet outby the junction with the first active entry . Inby 68 FEDERAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY INSPECTION.
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Página 435 - The Government then of the United States can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the Constitution; and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Página 435 - The power of Congress over interstate commerce is not confined to the regulation of commerce among the states. It extends to those activities intrastate which so affect interstate commerce or the exercise of the power of Congress over it as to make regulation of them appropriate means to the attainment of a legitimate end, the exercise of the granted power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
Página 437 - But apart from the common law as to restraint of trade thus taken up by the statute the law is full of instances where a man's fate depends on his estimating rightly, that is, as the jury subsequently estimates it, some matter of degree. If his judgment is wrong, not only may he incur a fine or a short imprisonment, as here; he may incur the penalty of death.
Página 47 - It leaves open, therefore, the widest conceivable inquiry, the scope of which no one can foresee and the result of which no one can foreshadow or adequately guard against.
Página 4 - ... the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, or to any duly authorized representative of such Bureau, upon request, complete and correct information to the best of his knowledge concerning any or all accidents involving bodily injury or loss of life which occurred in such mine during the calendar year in which the request is made or during the preceding calendar year.
Página 8 - Every owner, lessee, agent, manager, superintendent, or other person having control or supervision of any coal mine the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce...
Página 326 - In bituminous-coal and lignite mines the quantity of air reaching the last open crosscut in any pair or set of entries shall not be less than six thousand cubic feet a minute, except that the quantity of air reaching the last open crosscut in any pair or set of entries in pillar sections may be less than six thousand cubic feet a minute if not less than six thousand cubic feet of air a...
Página 4 - For the purpose of obtaining information relating to health and safety conditions in such mines, the causes of accidents involving bodily injury or loss of life in such mines, or the causes of occupational diseases originating in such mines...
Página 5 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the due execution of this Act. SEC. 11. For the purposes of this Act, the term "commerce...
Página 88 - Cages used for handling men shall be equipped with safety catches that act quickly and effectively in an emergency. (d) Cages shall be inspected daily. A test of safety catches on cages shall be made at least every 2 months. A written record shall be kept of inspections and tests which shall be open for inspection by interested persons.