Pennsylvania Act 1870-1 — MINE VENTILATION ACT

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MINE VENTILATION ACT
                    Act of Mar. 3, 1870, P.L. 3, No. 1                Cl. 52
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the health and safety of persons employed in coal
        mines.

        Section 19.  Penalty for endangering lives of miners, or
     security of machinery
        Any miner, workman, or other person, who shall knowingly
     injure any safety-lamp, water gauge, barometer, air-course,
     brattice, or obstruct or throw open air-ways, or carry lighted
     pipes or matches into places that are worked by safety-lamps, or
     handle or disturb any part of the machinery of the hoisting
     engine, or open a door and not have the same closed, whereby
     danger is caused in the mine, or enter any place of the mine
     against caution, or disobey any order given in carrying out the
     provisions of this act, or shall ride upon a loaded car or
     carriage in any shaft or slope, or on any plane in or around any
     of said mines, or do any other act whereby the lives or the
     health of persons, or the security of the mines or machinery, is
     endangered; or any miner, having charge of a working place in
     any coal mine or colliery, who shall neglect or refuse to keep
     the roof thereof properly propped and timbered, to prevent the
     falling of coal, slate or rock, every such person shall be
     deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be
     punished by imprisonment and fine, at the discretion of the
     court.  1870, March 3, P.L. 3, Sec. 19.