45.1-161.164 - Number of miners in openings. - Virginia Statutes

§ 45.1-161.164. Number of miners in openings.

Until the two travel ways are made as required by § 45.1-161.162, not morethan twenty miners shall work underground in the mine at one time. Noadditional development shall be permitted until the connection is made to thesecond opening. In mines where final pillar removal operations necessitateclosing the second opening, not more than twenty miners shall be permitted towork in the mine.

(Code 1950, § 45-71; 1954, c. 191; 1966, c. 594, § 45.1-94; 1994, c. 28;1996, c. 774.)