The Board of Coal Mine Health & Safety adopted three new mine safety rules addressing the capacity of mantrips or personnel carriers in underground mines, additional inspections of underground areas immediately following welding and cutting activities and expanded requirements for utility companies to notify mine operators before proceeding on bonded mine property and to properly mark all energized gas lines.
The rules pertaining to underground personnel carriers do not take effect until January 2008 and gas companies are afforded a ninety (90) day period once the rules are effective to mark all energized pipelines on bonded property.
