Arizona Laws 27-353. Safety cage and catches
A. It is unlawful for the operator of a mine to permit hoisting or lowering persons in a shaft deeper than three hundred feet except shafts in process of sinking, unless an iron-bonnetted safety cage equipped with gates at least five feet in height is used for hoisting and lowering the persons. Every cage or skip used for hoisting persons shall be provided with a safety catch of sufficient strength to hold the cage or skip with its maximum load at any point in the shaft in the event the hoisting cable breaks. The inspector shall require that cages and skips be equipped as required by this section and that on all cages the safety catches are kept well oiled and in good working condition.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 27-353
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- 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
- Operator: means a natural person, corporation, partnership association, agent, governmental entity or other public or private organization or representative owning, controlling or managing a mine. 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
- Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
B. In a shaft less than three hundred feet deep where no safety cage is used, and where cross-heads are used, platforms for employees to ride upon equipped with safety catches as required for cages and skips shall be provided.
C. Skips, the capacity of which exceeds five tons, running on steel guides in shafts designed primarily for the hoisting of rock, need not be equipped with safety catches. Such skips, however, shall be equipped with a platform and bonnet for the protection of the persons, who, as provided in this article, may legally ride the skips. Only persons engaged in shaft maintenance, pumpmen, skiptenders, supervisors and inspectors shall be permitted to be hoisted or lowered in such skips. No person, including those specifically mentioned in this paragraph, shall be permitted to ride a loaded skip.