(225 ILCS 710/29) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4237)
Sec. 29.
Conveyances; rules.
The superintendent of the mine shall
establish for each shaft rates of speed for the cages, skips, buckets or other
conveyances that shall not be exceeded in the hoisting or lowering of people,
and he or she shall post a notice of such limitation in a conspicuous place
near each hoisting engine: Provided, that the speed so permitted shall not be
greater than 500 feet per minute in the case of shafts of less than 500 feet in
depth, and not greater than 800 feet per minute in the case of shafts between
500 and 1000 feet in depth, and in shafts of more than 1000 feet in depth not
more than one half the speed normally employed in hoisting material: Provided
further, that in the case of inclined shafts the classification herein made
shall be determined by the measurement of their slope.
The superintendent of the mine shall determine the maximum number of
people that in his or her judgment may safely ride on each
cage, skip, bucket, or other conveyance used in the mine under his or her
supervision and shall post in a conspicuous place near each shaft a notice
stating the maximum number of persons so permitted to ride and forbidding the
carrying of any greater number. At the beginning of each shift the mine foreman
or shift boss, or some other responsible person appointed by the
superintendent, shall be stationed on the loading platform at the top of the
shaft and shall prevent any greater number of people than that permitted by
order of the superintendent to enter upon or into any cage, skip, bucket, or
other conveyances and shall remain at this station until the last person about
to descend the shaft shall have entered the cage, skip, bucket, or other
conveyance. And at the end of the shift, the people in charge of work on each
level of the mine from which men are to be hoisted shall be posted in the
station of the shaft at that level and shall prevent any greater number of
people than the maximum permitted by the superintendent of the mine to enter
upon or into any cage, skip, bucket, or other conveyance and shall remain in
this station until the last person to ascend shall have entered upon or into
the cage, skip, bucket, or other conveyance.
In every mine operated on 2 or more levels in which 100 or more people
are employed underground and in which the people are hoisted or lowered by
cage or other conveyance except a bucket, such cage or other conveyance
shall be operated under the charge of a person appointed as conductor,
and no person other than this conductor shall give any signal for the
movement of the cage or other conveyance.
In hoisting or lowering people with a bucket, the speed, except in the
case of apprehended danger, shall not exceed 200 feet per minute when
the bucket is within 100 feet of the surface or 500 feet per minute in
any other part of the shaft.
The superintendent of the mine shall be responsible for the
enforcement of the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 87-1133.)
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