Virginia Administrative Code
Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Agency 25 - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Chapter 40 - SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS FOR MINERAL MINING
Part XV - Safety and Health Regulations-Underground Only
Article 10 - Personnel Hoisting
- Section 4VAC25-40-4070 - Capacities of hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4080 - Anchoring hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4090 - Connecting driving mechanisms to personnel hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4100 - Brakes on personnel hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4110 - Personnel hoist clutches
- Section 4VAC25-40-4120 - Brakes on automatic hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4130 - Friction hoist overtravel protection
- Section 4VAC25-40-4140 - Overtravel prevention on personnel hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4150 - Friction hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4160 - Overtravel bypass switches
- Section 4VAC25-40-4170 - Emergency braking for electric hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4180 - Position indicators
- Section 4VAC25-40-4190 - Placement of hoist controls
- Section 4VAC25-40-4200 - Drum flanges
- Section 4VAC25-40-4210 - Drum grooves
- Section 4VAC25-40-4220 - Engine-powered hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4230 - Standards for wire ropes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4240 - Installation of wire ropes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4250 - Guide ropes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4260 - Wire rope examination
- Section 4VAC25-40-4270 - Requirements for rope ends
- Section 4VAC25-40-4280 - Load end attachment
- Section 4VAC25-40-4290 - New ropes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4300 - Safety device attachments
- Section 4VAC25-40-4310 - Secondary safety connections
- Section 4VAC25-40-4320 - Headframes and sheaves
- Section 4VAC25-40-4330 - Clearance requirements
- Section 4VAC25-40-4340 - Fleet angles
- Section 4VAC25-40-4350 - Platforms
- Section 4VAC25-40-4360 - Diameter specifications
- Section 4VAC25-40-4370 - Support grooves
- Section 4VAC25-40-4380 - Metal bonnets
- Section 4VAC25-40-4390 - Use of buckets to hoist persons
- Section 4VAC25-40-4400 - Specifications for buckets used to hoist persons
- Section 4VAC25-40-4410 - Ratings for ropes suspending platforms
- Section 4VAC25-40-4420 - Rope guides
- Section 4VAC25-40-4430 - Use of manually-operated hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4440 - Use of automatic hoists
- Section 4VAC25-40-4450 - Fitness requirements for hoist persons
- Section 4VAC25-40-4460 - Competency of hoist persons
- Section 4VAC25-40-4470 - Use of extreme caution
- Section 4VAC25-40-4480 - Speed for hoisting persons
- Section 4VAC25-40-4490 - Maximum speeds
- Section 4VAC25-40-4500 - Authorized persons
- Section 4VAC25-40-4510 - Balancing cages
- Section 4VAC25-40-4520 - Lowering conveyances by brakes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4530 - Maximum number of persons to ride
- Section 4VAC25-40-4540 - Persons in charge
- Section 4VAC25-40-4550 - Conduct on conveyances
- Section 4VAC25-40-4560 - Moving conveyances
- Section 4VAC25-40-4570 - Doors to be closed
- Section 4VAC25-40-4580 - Riding in loaded buckets
- Section 4VAC25-40-4590 - When skips shall be empty
- Section 4VAC25-40-4600 - Hoisting rock or supplies
- Section 4VAC25-40-4610 - Limitations on riding shaft conveyance
- Section 4VAC25-40-4620 - Open hooks
- Section 4VAC25-40-4630 - Speeds for open buckets
- Section 4VAC25-40-4640 - Where buckets to be stopped on lowering
- Section 4VAC25-40-4650 - Where buckets to be stopped on raising
- Section 4VAC25-40-4660 - Blocking cars
- Section 4VAC25-40-4670 - Securing materials in buckets
- Section 4VAC25-40-4680 - Placement of conveyances not in use
- Section 4VAC25-40-4690 - Signaling between stations and hoist room
- Section 4VAC25-40-4700 - When telephone instructions are acceptable
- Section 4VAC25-40-4710 - Signals to hoist operator
- Section 4VAC25-40-4720 - Standard hoisting signals
- Section 4VAC25-40-4730 - Posting of signal codes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4740 - Positioning signal devices
- Section 4VAC25-40-4750 - Qualifications of persons giving signals
- Section 4VAC25-40-4760 - Safety gates on landings
- Section 4VAC25-40-4770 - Stop blocks or derail switches
- Section 4VAC25-40-4780 - Where guides to be provided
- Section 4VAC25-40-4790 - Construction of dumping facilities
- Section 4VAC25-40-4800 - Shaft station clearance requirements
- Section 4VAC25-40-4810 - Safe passage around compartments
- Section 4VAC25-40-4820 - Maintaining shaft sets
- Section 4VAC25-40-4830 - Persons working in shafts
- Section 4VAC25-40-4840 - Posting of signs
- Section 4VAC25-40-4850 - Performing inspections and repairs
- Section 4VAC25-40-4860 - Bulkheads or equivalent protection
- Section 4VAC25-40-4870 - Ladders in shafts
- Section 4VAC25-40-4880 - Inspection and testing procedures
- Section 4VAC25-40-4890 - Records to be kept
- Section 4VAC25-40-4900 - Replacement parts
- Section 4VAC25-40-4910 - Lubrication of ropes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4920 - Cutting of ropes for inspections
- Section 4VAC25-40-4930 - Cutting of ropes to distribute wear
- Section 4VAC25-40-4940 - Ropes to be calipered
- Section 4VAC25-40-4950 - Electromagnetic or other nondestructive testing
- Section 4VAC25-40-4960 - Substandard ropes
- Section 4VAC25-40-4970 - Testing on each shift
- Section 4VAC25-40-4980 - Testing with empty conveyances
- Section 4VAC25-40-4990 - Inspection of ropes and connections
- Section 4VAC25-40-5000 - Inspection of safety catches
- Section 4VAC25-40-5010 - Inspection of shafts
- Section 4VAC25-40-5020 - Inspection of sheaves
- Section 4VAC25-40-5030 - Lubrication of rollers
- Section 4VAC25-40-5040 to 4VAC25-40-5050 - Repealed
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