[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: 30CFR56.3131]

[Page 260]
 
                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 56--SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS--SURFACE METAL AND NONMETAL MINES--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart B--Ground Control
 
Sec. 56.3131  Pit or quarry wall perimeter.

    In places where persons work or travel in performing their assigned 
tasks, loose or unconsolidated material shall be sloped to the angle of 
repose or stripped back for at least 10 feet from the top of the pit or 
quarry wall. Other conditions at or near the perimeter of the pit or 
quarry wall which create a fall-of-material hazard to persons shall be 
corrected.

                           Scaling and Support