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Mine Manager--Requirements and Duties

  • 225 ILCS 705/5.01
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.03— It shall be unlawful for any operator to operate an underground coal mine without the services of a mine manager
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.04
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.05— Effective on or after January 1, 1977, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any underground mine to employ as a superintendent any person who does not hold a certificate of competency as a mine manager issued by the Mining Board
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.06— The mine manager shall be responsible for the performance of all the functions and duties prescribed in Sections 5.07 to 5.25, both inclusive
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.07— Visit each working place in the mine at least once in every two weeks and require his assistants or the Face Bosses to go into all working places in their territory or sections regularly during each working shift
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.08— Provide a suitable checking system whereby the entrance into and the departure from the mine of each employee shall be positively indicated
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.09— In all mines: 1
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.10— To have the underground working places in the mine examined for hazards by competent personnel designated by the operator to do so, at least once during each coal-producing shift, or oftener if necessary for safety
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.11— To see that a mine examiner makes the examinations provided in Articles 5, 6, and 31 of this Act and that he enters his report either by calling the results of the examination to a recorder on the surface or by personally recording the report
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.12
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.13— He shall provide a sufficient number of props, caps, and timbers, when needed, delivered on the miners' cars at the usual place, in suitable lengths and dimensions for the securing of the roof by the miners
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.14
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.15— He shall take daily barometer readings and record the readings when men are in the mine, and keep a careful watch over all ventilating apparatus and the air currents in the mine
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.16— He shall measure the air current or cause the same to be measured at least once each week at the inlet and outlet, also at the last open cross-cut in each division or split, and shall keep a record of such measurements for the information of the State mine inspector
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.17
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.18— He shall examine or designate a competent person to examine the hoisting ropes, cages, and safety catches every morning and shall require the ropes to be tested by hoisting the cages before men are lowered
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.19— At shaft mines, he must see that the top and bottom people are on duty at the beginning and end of regular shifts where people are hoisted in and out of the mine, and that sufficient lights are maintained at the top and bottom landings when the miners are being hoisted and lowered
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.20— He or his assistant shall be at his post at the mine when the men are lowered into the mine in the morning for work, and shall remain at night until all the men employed during the day shall have been hoisted up
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.21— He shall give special attention to and instructions concerning the proper storage and handling of permissible explosives in the mines
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.22— Where coal is broken down "on shift"; and while men are in the mine, with compressed air, or by some mechanical or chemical-mechanical device which does not emit spark or flame, he shall see that frequent examination for gas and other hazards is made by competent personnel
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.23— He shall require all excessively dusty haulage roads to be thoroughly sprayed, sprinkled, cleaned or rockdusted at regular intervals when the health and safety of the men in the mines are jeopardized
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.24— To instruct employees as to their respective duties and to require of all employees obedience to the provisions of this Act
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.25— To prescribe special rules concerning the proper storage and handling of explosives in the mine and concerning the time and manner of placing and discharging the blasting shots, and it shall be unlawful for any miner to fire shots except according to such rules
  • 225 ILCS 705/5.26— In mines in which the works are so extensive that all the duties devolving upon the mine manager cannot be discharged by one man, competent persons may be designated and appointed as assistants to the mine manager, who shall exercise his functions under the mine manager's instructions