California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 17 - Mine Safety Orders
Article 12 - Ground Control
Surface
Section 6989 - (3-4). Protection of Workers at the Face
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) No work shall be permitted above or below men at the face if such work endangers their safety.
(b) Workers at the face shall be protected as follows:
When necessary for safety, two or more persons shall be employed in cooperation with each other in drilling, blasting or removing loose rock.
(c) (3-6) Men shall approach from above loose rock and areas to be scaled and shall scale from a safe location.
(d) (3-12) Men shall not work between equipment and the pit wall or bank where the equipment may hinder escape from falls or slides of the bank.
(e) (3-4) Safe means for scaling pit banks shall be provided. Hazardous banks shall be scaled before other work is performed in the hazardous bank area.