miner
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
any individual who works or has worked in or around a coal mine or coal preparation facility in the extraction or preparation of coal.
Defined by the Supreme Court in Pittston Coal Group v. Sebben McLaughlin, 488 U.S. 105 (1988).
United States Code
30 U.S.C. § 802 — in this section
“miner” means any individual working in a coal or other mine;
30 U.S.C. § 902 — for purposes of this subchapter
The term “miner” means any individual who works or has worked in or around a coal mine or coal preparation facility in the extraction or preparation of coal. Such term also includes an individual who works or has worked in coal mine construction or transportation in or around a coal mine, to the extent such individual was exposed to coal dust as a result of such employment.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
One who mines; a digger for metals and other minerals. While men of scientific attainments or of experience in the use of machinery, are to be found in this class, yet the word by which the class is designated imports neither learning nor skill. Watson v. Lederer, 11 Co.lo. 577, 19 Pac. 604, 1 L. R. A. 854, 7 Am. St Rep. 263.
— Miner's incb. See Inch.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
One who mines; a digger for metals and other minerals. While men of scientilicattainments, or of experience in the use oi machinery, are to be found in this Ziass, yet the word by which the class is designated imports neither learning nor skill. {Colo.) 19 Pac. Rep. 604. anything may be dug; such as beds of stone which may be quarried. 14 Mees. & W. 859. Any natural production, formed by the action of chemical affinities, and organized when becoming solid by the powers of crystalization. Webster.