Missouri § 293.330 - Signaling and hoisting devices in shaft, safety requirements.
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§ 293.330. Signaling and hoisting devices in shaft, safety requirements.
The owner, agent or operator of every coal mine operated by shaft shall provide suitable means of signaling between the bottom and the top thereof, and shall also provide safe means of hoisting and lowering persons in a cage covered with boiler iron, so as to keep safe, as far as possible, persons descending into and ascending out of said shaft; and such cage shall be furnished with guides to conduct it on slides through such shaft, with a sufficient brake on every drum to prevent accident in case of the giving out or breaking of machinery; and such cage shall be furnished with spring catches, intended and provided, as far as possible, to prevent the consequences of cable breaking or the loosening or disconnecting of the machinery; and no props or rails shall be lowered in a cage while men are descending into or ascending out of said mine. The provisions of this section in relation to covering cages with boiler iron shall not apply to coal mines less than one hundred feet in depth.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 188 § 36)
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Source: official Missouri text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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