Monterey Coal Co. v. Evilsizer

PRESIDING JUSTICE MILLS

delivered the opinion of the court:

A single issue.

Does section 6.04(A) of the Coal Mining Act require a preshift examination before company personnel may carry out a “fire watch”?

We hold that it does not.

The Facts

In the summer of 1982, the United Mine Workers of America, Local Union No. 9878, petitioned the Mining Board of Illinois for an interpretation of section 6.04(A) of the Coal Mining Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 96V2, par. 604(A)), which requires a preshift examination of a mine before a shift of workers enters the mine to work. Section 6.04(A) of the Coal…