Article
Hoisting Engineer and Hoisting
- 225 ILCS 705/7.02
- 225 ILCS 705/7.03— It shall be unlawful for the operator of any mine to permit any person who does not hold a certificate of competency as hoisting engineer issued by the Mining Board to hoist or lower men, or to have charge of the hoisting engine when men are underground
- 225 ILCS 705/7.04— The Mining Board may grant a permit to operate a second motion engine, or internal combustion engine, at any mine employing not more than 10 men, to any person recommended to the Mining Board by the State Mine Inspector of the district
- 225 ILCS 705/7.05
- 225 ILCS 705/7.06— Whenever the hoisting or lowering of men occurs before daylight or after dark, or when the landing at which men take or leave the cage is at all obscured by steam or otherwise, there must always be maintained at such landing a light sufficient to show the landing and surrounding objects distinctly
- 225 ILCS 705/7.07— In connection with every hoisting engine used for hoisting or lowering of men there shall be provided a good and sufficient brake on the drum, so adjusted that it may be operated by the engineer without leaving his post at the levers
- 225 ILCS 705/7.08— Every hoisting drum shall be provided with flanges attached to the sides of the drum, with a distance when the whole rope is wound on the drum of not less than 4 inches between the outer layer of rope and the greatest diameter of the flange
- 225 ILCS 705/7.09— One end of each hoisting rope shall be well secured on the drum, and at least three laps of the same shall remain on the drum when the cage is at rest at the lowest caging place in the shaft
- 225 ILCS 705/7.10— An index dial or indicator that plainly shows the engineer at all times the true position of the cages in the shaft shall be placed in clear view of the engineer
- 225 ILCS 705/7.11— At the beginning of each shift and after the mine has been idle, the hoisting engineer shall operate the cages up and down the shaft at least one round trip before hoisting or lowering men
- 225 ILCS 705/7.12— At every mine where men are hoisted and lowered by machinery there shall be provided means of signaling to and from the bottom man, the top man and the engineer
- 225 ILCS 705/7.13— The following signals shall be used at all the mines
- 225 ILCS 705/7.14— Where a hoisting engineer is required by law, he shall: 1
- 225 ILCS 705/7.15— The hoisting engineer or some other properly authorized employee shall: 1
- 225 ILCS 705/7.16— No person shall handle or disturb any part of the hoisting machinery without proper authority
- 225 ILCS 705/7.17— At every shaft where men are hoisted or lowered by machinery, the operator shall station a competent man at the top and at the bottom of the shaft who shall attend to signals, and be empowered to preserve order and enforce the rules governing the carriage of men on cages
- 225 ILCS 705/7.18— Cages on which men are riding shall not be lifted nor lowered at a rate of speed greater than 600 feet per minute, except with the written consent of the State Mine Inspector
- 225 ILCS 705/7.19
- 225 ILCS 705/7.20— On boilers connected with one another by what is known as headerlines, all valve connections thereto shall be closed and securely fastened while the boiler or boilers are being washed, cleaned, or repaired for the protection of the person so engaged
- 225 ILCS 705/7.21
- 225 ILCS 705/7.22— All boilers used in generating steam in and about coal mines or in sinking shafts shall be kept in good order