Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
TITLE 460. Department of Mines |
Chapter 15. Underground Coal and Asphalt |
Subchapter 1. General Standards |
SECTION 460:15-1-16. Accidents and injuries
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- (a) All personal loss time accidents and accidents which could result in loss time (three (3) days loss from regularly assigned duties) shall be reported to the Department of Mines.(b) All serious accidents, accidents resulting in fatalities, mine fires and explosions, mine inundation, and major roof falls, shall be reported immediately to the Department of Mines.(c) Accidents resulting in a fatality shall have the area preserved by posting "keep out" placards at all entrances until the accident has been investigated by the Oklahoma Department of Mines.(d) Non-loss time accidents shall be reported within ten (10) days from the date the accident occurred.(e) Failure to report accidents may warrant revoking a mining permit by the Oklahoma Mining Commission.