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LegalText 30 U.S.C. § 874 Hoisting and mantrips us united_states_code code_section 30 MINERAL LANDS AND MINING 22 MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH 874 30 U.S.C. § 874 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc30@119-100.zip /us/usc/t30/s874 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-30/usc30.xml a126ec72eb4085c584f33c41af5b8b12fafb028b725edc7e9c66a0324e942a48 355f8eb5c6ad5372de4a8e665d9ed90202d53d2aac19ac001d43948af4a4dd2f 73662f1fe427586610768889948166d6bfe58744e585fe600b7f3032aea7ecec 2026-07-04 official
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30 U.S.C. § 874 - Hoisting and mantrips

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(a) Transporting of persons; required equipment and capabilities; safety catches; daily examinations; operators Every hoist used to transport persons at a coal mine shall be equipped with overspeed, overwind, and automatic stop controls. Every hoist handling platforms, cages, or other devices used to transport persons shall be equipped with brakes capable of stopping the fully loaded platform, cage, or other device; with hoisting cable adequately strong to sustain the fully loaded platform, cage, or other device; and have a proper margin of safety. Cages, platforms, or other devices which are used to transport persons in shafts and slopes shall be equipped with safety catches or other no less effective devices approved by the Secretary that act quickly and effectively in an emergency, and such catches shall be tested at least once every two months. Hoisting equipment, including automatic elevators, that is used to transport persons shall be examined daily. Where persons are transported into, or out of, a coal mine by hoists, a qualified hoisting engineer shall be on duty while any person is underground, except that no such engineer shall be required for automatically operated cages, platforms, or elevators.

(b) Promulgation of other safeguards Other safeguards adequate, in the judgment of an authorized representative of the Secretary, to minimize hazards with respect to transportation of men and materials shall be provided.

(c) Rated capacities; indicator for position of cage Hoists shall have rated capacities consistent with the loads handled and the recommended safety factors of the ropes used. An accurate and reliable indicator of the position of the cage, platform, skip, bucket, or cars shall be provided.

(d) Methods for signaling between shaft stations and hoist rooms There shall be at least two effective methods approved by the Secretary of signaling between each of the shaft stations and the hoist room, one of which shall be a telephone or speaking tube.

(e) Braking equipment for haulage cars used in underground mines Each locomotive and haulage car used in an underground coal mine shall be equipped with automatic brakes, where space permits. Where space does not permit automatic brakes, locomotives and haulage cars shall be subject to speed reduction gear, or other similar devices approved by the Secretary which are designed to stop the locomotives and haulage cars with the proper margin of safety.

(f) Automatic couplers for haulage equipment All haulage equipment acquired by an operator of a coal mine on or after one year after the operative date of this subchapter shall be equipped with automatic couplers which couple by impact and uncouple without the necessity of persons going between the ends of such equipment. All haulage equipment without automatic couplers in use in a mine on the operative date of this subchapter shall also be so equipped within four years after the operative date of this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 91173, title III, § 314, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 786.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

References in TextFor the operative date of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (f), see section 509 of Pub. L. 91173, set out as an Effective Date note under section 801 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateSection operative 90 days after Dec. 30, 1969, except to the extent an earlier date is specifically provided for in Pub. L. 91173, see section 509 of Pub. L. 91173, set out as a note under section 801 of this title.