[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 30, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 30CFR50.20]

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                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 50--NOTIFICATION, INVESTIGATION, REPORTS AND RECORDS OF ACCIDENTS, INJURIES, ILLNESSES, EMPLOYMENT, AND COAL PRODUCTION IN MINES--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart C--Reporting of Accidents, Injuries, and Illnesses
 
Sec. 50.20  Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1--Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.


    (a) Each operator shall maintain at the mine office a supply of MSHA 
Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report Form 7000-1. These may be 
obtained from MSHA Metal and Nonmetal Mine Safety and Health District 
Offices and from MSHA Coal Mine Safety and Health Subdistrict Offices. 
Each operator shall report each accident, occupational injury, or 
occupational illness at the mine. The principal officer in charge of 
health and safety at the mine or the supervisor of the mine area in 
which an accident or occupational injury occurs, or an occupational 
illness may have originated, shall complete or review the form in 
accordance with the instructions and criteria in Secs. 50.20-1 through 
50.20-7. If an occupational illness is diagnosed as being one of those 
listed in Sec. 50.20-6(b)(7), the operator must report it under this 
part. The operator shall mail completed forms to MSHA within ten working 
days after an accident or occupational injury occurs or an occupational 
illness is diagnosed. When an accident specified in Sec. 50.10 occurs, 
which does not involve an occupational injury, sections A, B, and items 
5 through 11 of section C of Form 7000-1 shall be completed and mailed 
to MSHA in accordance with the instructions in Sec. 50.20-1 and criteria 
contained in Secs. 50.20-4 through 50.20-6.

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    (b) Each operator shall report each occupational injury or 
occupational illness on one set of forms. If more than one miner is 
injured in the same accident or is affected simultaneously with the same 
occupational illness, an operator shall complete a separate set of forms 
for each miner affected. To the extent that the form is not self-
explanatory, an operator shall complete the form in accordance with the 
instructions in Sec. 50.20-1 and criteria contained in Secs. 50.20-2 
through 50.20-7.

(Secs. 103 (a) and (h), and 508, Pub. L. 91-173, as amended by Pub. L. 
95-164, 91 Stat. 1297, 1299, 83 Stat. 803 (30 U.S.C. 801, 813, 957))

[42 FR 65535, Dec. 30, 1977, as amended at 44 FR 52828, Sept. 11, 1979; 
60 FR 35695, July 11, 1995]