Okla. Stat. tit. 45, § 45-512
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Safety equipment for shafts
Official statutory text
The operator or superintendent shall provide and maintain from
the top to bottom of every shaft, where persons are raised or
lowered, a metal tube suitably adapted to the free passage of sound
through which conversation may be held between persons at the top
and bottom of said shaft, and also a means of signaling from the top
to the bottom thereof, and shall provide every cage or gear carriage
used for the hoisting or lowering of persons with a sufficient
overhead covering to protect those persons when using the same and
shall provide also for each said cage or carriage a safety catch
approved by the mine inspector, and the said operator or
superintendent shall see that flanges with clearance of not less
than four (4) inches when the whole of the rope is wound around the
drum, are attached to the sides of the drum of every machine that is
used for lowering persons into or hoisting them out of the mines,
and also, that adjacent brakes are attached to the drums: Provided,
that the rope shall be left around the drum at least two and one-
half (2 1/2) times when the cage is at the bottom. At all shafts,
safety gates to be approved by the mine inspector of the district,
shall be so placed as to prevent persons from falling into the
shaft.
the top to bottom of every shaft, where persons are raised or
lowered, a metal tube suitably adapted to the free passage of sound
through which conversation may be held between persons at the top
and bottom of said shaft, and also a means of signaling from the top
to the bottom thereof, and shall provide every cage or gear carriage
used for the hoisting or lowering of persons with a sufficient
overhead covering to protect those persons when using the same and
shall provide also for each said cage or carriage a safety catch
approved by the mine inspector, and the said operator or
superintendent shall see that flanges with clearance of not less
than four (4) inches when the whole of the rope is wound around the
drum, are attached to the sides of the drum of every machine that is
used for lowering persons into or hoisting them out of the mines,
and also, that adjacent brakes are attached to the drums: Provided,
that the rope shall be left around the drum at least two and one-
half (2 1/2) times when the cage is at the bottom. At all shafts,
safety gates to be approved by the mine inspector of the district,
shall be so placed as to prevent persons from falling into the
shaft.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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