                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 EXAMINATIONS OF FANS (§ 45.2-829)

A. An authorized person shall conduct a daily inspection of each main fan and of
the machinery connected with such fan. The person making the examination shall
record such examination in a book prescribed for this purpose or by other
adequate means provided to permanently record the performance of the main fan
and to give warning of an interruption to a fan. No such daily examination is
required on any day in which no person goes underground, except that the
examination shall be completed prior to any person entering the mine if no
examination was made on the previous day.

B. Any place ventilated by means of a blower fan shall be examined for methane
by a certified person before the fan is started at the beginning of the shift
and after any interruption of fan operation that lasts for five minutes or more
during the shift.

C. Each blower fan and its tubing shall be inspected at least twice during each
working shift by a certified person.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 45-60.1, 45-60.2; 1954, c. 191; 1966, c. 594, §§
45.1-54, 45.1-55; 1978, c. 120; 1988, c. 597; 1993, c. 442; 1994, c. 28, §
45.1-161.211; 1999, c. 256; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.