A. No person addicted to intoxicating liquors or drugs, or under eighteen years of age shall be employed as a hoisting engineer.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 27-351

  • Inspector: means the state mine inspector and except in article 7 of this chapter his deputies. See Arizona Laws 27-301
  • Mine: means all lands containing excavations, underground passageways, shafts, tunnels and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, machines or other property including impoundments, retention dams, tailings and waste dumps, on the surface or underground, used in, to be used in or resulting from the work of extracting minerals or other materials, excluding hydrocarbons. See Arizona Laws 27-301
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215

B. All power hoisting machinery used in hoisting from or lowering employees and materials into mines, except for prospect shafts not exceeding three hundred feet in depth, shall be equipped with an indicator placed near and in clear view or hearing of the engineer. The indicator shall be in addition to marks on the rope, cable or drum.

C. It is unlawful to hoist or lower persons from or into a mine at a speed greater than fifteen hundred feet per minute, but the inspector may designate a lesser speed than fifteen hundred feet per minute in a shaft, if in his opinion a greater speed is unsafe, or a greater speed if in his opinion particular shafts and hoist conditions so warrant.

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