Tennessee § 59-4-401 - Reports required of owners, superintendents or foremen.
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§ 59-4-401. Reports required of owners, superintendents or foremen.
It is the further duty of every owner, lessee of any coal lands, superintendent, or foreman to report the facts in the following cases promptly, to the department of labor and workforce development: Any change in the name of any mine or any owner, agent, manager, superintendent, foreman (including, in the case of commercial coal mines, any change in assistant foreman or the officers of any company) which owns and operates a mine in this state; Any working commenced for the purpose of opening a new shaft, slope, or mine; Where any mine is abandoned or the working thereof is discontinued indefinitely; Where the working of any mine is recommenced after any abandonment or discontinuance for a period of two (2) months; Every lost-time accident in a mine other than a commercial coal mine, whether it results in death or not; and Every accident of any nature to a person in a commercial coal mine, whether it results in death or not. Acts 1915, ch. 169, § 24; 1917, ch. 111; Shan., § 3079a141; Code 1932, § 5624; Acts 1951, ch. 245, § 16 (Williams, § 5555); Acts 1953, ch. 86, § 16 (Williams, § 5638.16); modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 58-415; Acts 1985, ch. 288, §§ 36-38; 2016, ch. 599, § 7. Compiler’s Notes. Acts 2016, ch. 599, § 7, provided that references to the elevator division, division of mines, labor standards division, and division of boiler and elevator inspection, are to be changed to the department of labor and workforce development as sections are amended and volumes are replaced.
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