30 U.S.C. § 803
Section 803 · Mines subject to coverage
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case United Energy Services Incorporated v. Federal Mine Safety & Health Administration (1994)
Most recently applied in Robert Thomas v. Calportland Company (April 2021)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Each coal or other mine, the products of which enter commerce, or the operations or products of which affect commerce, and each operator of such mine, and every miner in such mine shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
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Amendments
1977—Pub. L. 95–164 inserted “or other” after “coal”.
Effective Date of 1977 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 95–164 effective 120 days after Nov. 9, 1977, except as otherwise provided, see section 307 of Pub. L. 95–164, set out as a note under section 801 of this title.