Ohio Code § 1563.14
Ohio Code § 1563.14. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 1563.14.
Except as provided in this section, the operator of an underground coal mine shall
not employ, or permit any person to work therein, unless there are at least two openings
to every seam worked in such mine, separated by natural strata of not less than one
hundred feet in breadth at any point, by which distinct means of ingress and egress
are always available to the persons therein employed. Such openings need not belong to the same mine so long as the persons employed therein
have safe, ready, and available means of ingress and egress, by not less than two
openings; provided that no air shaft with a ventilating furnace at the bottom shall
be designated or used as a means of ingress or egress. This section does not apply to: (A) Opening a new mine; however, not more than twenty miners may be allowed at any one
time in any mine until a connection has been made between the two mine openings. Such connections shall be made as quickly as possible. (B) A mine in which the second opening has become unavailable for any reason, so long
as not more than twenty persons are employed therein at any one time and are engaged
in the process of restoring the second opening or developing a new opening; (C) A mine in which the second opening has become unavailable by reason of the final
robbing of the pillars previous to abandonment, so long as not more than twenty persons
are employed therein at one time, and the distance between the mine opening and the
working face does not exceed five hundred feet. No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 1563.14
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
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