30 U.S.C. § 802 : US Code - Section 802: Definitions

Search 30 U.S.C. § 802 : US Code - Section 802: Definitions

For the purpose of this chapter, the term -
(a) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Labor or his delegate;
(b) "commerce" means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation,
or communication among the several States, or between a place in
a State and any place outside thereof, or within the District of
Columbia or a possession of the United States, or between points
in the same State but through a point outside thereof;
(c) "State" includes a State of the United States, the District
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
American Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands;
(d) "operator" means any owner, lessee, or other person who
operates, controls, or supervises a coal or other mine or any
independent contractor performing services or construction at
such mine;
(e) "agent" means any person charged with responsibility for
the operation of all or a part of a coal or other mine or the
supervision of the miners in a coal or other mine;
(f) "person" means any individual, partnership, association,
corporation, firm, subsidiary of a corporation, or other
organization;
(g) "miner" means any individual working in a coal or other
mine;
(h)(1) "coal or other mine" means (A) an area of land from
which minerals are extracted in nonliquid form or, if in liquid
form, are extracted with workers underground, (B) private ways
and roads appurtenant to such area, and (C) lands, excavations,
underground passageways, shafts, slopes, tunnels and workings,
structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other
property including impoundments, retention dams, and tailings
ponds, on the surface or underground, used in, or to be used in,
or resulting from, the work of extracting such minerals from
their natural deposits in nonliquid form, or if in liquid form,
with workers underground, or used in, or to be used in, the
milling of such minerals, or the work of preparing coal or other
minerals, and includes custom coal preparation facilities. In
making a determination of what constitutes mineral milling for
purposes of this chapter, the Secretary shall give due
consideration to the convenience of administration resulting from
the delegation to one Assistant Secretary of all authority with
respect to the health and safety of miners employed at one
physical establishment;
(2) For purposes of subchapters II, III, and IV of this
chapter, "coal mine" means an area of land and all structures,
facilities, machinery, tools, equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels,
excavations, and other property, real or personal, placed upon,
under, or above the surface of such land by any person, used in,
or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting in
such area bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite from its
natural deposits in the earth by any means or method, and the
work of preparing the coal so extracted, and includes custom coal
preparation facilities;
(i) "work of preparing the coal" means the breaking, crushing,
sizing, cleaning, washing, drying, mixing, storing, and loading
of bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite, and such other work
of preparing such coal as is usually done by the operator of the
coal mine;
(j) "imminent danger" means the existence of any condition or
practice in a coal or other mine which could reasonably be
expected to cause death or serious physical harm before such
condition or practice can be abated;
(k) "accident" includes a mine explosion, mine ignition, mine
fire, or mine inundation, or injury to, or death of, any person;
(l) "mandatory health or safety standard" means the interim
mandatory health or safety standards established by subchapters
II and III of this chapter, and the standards promulgated
pursuant to subchapter I of this chapter;
(m) "Panel" means the Interim Compliance Panel established by
this chapter; and
(n) "Administration" means the Mine Safety and Health
Administration in the Department of Labor.
(o) "Commission" means the Federal Mine Safety and Health
Review Commission.