Section 426. Equipment  


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  • Every employer of persons for work in compressed air
      shall:
        1.  Connect  at  least two air pipes with the working chamber and keep
      such pipes in perfect working condition;
        2.  Attach  to  the  working  chamber  in  accessible  positions   all
      instruments  necessary to show its pressure and keep such instruments in
      charge of competent persons, with a period of duty for each such  person
      not exceeding eight hours in any twenty-four;
        3. Place in each shaft a safe ladder extending its entire length;
        4. Light properly and keep clear each passageway;
        5.  Provide  independent  lighting systems for the working chamber and
      shaft leading to it, when electricity is used for lighting;
        6. Guard lights other than electric lights;
        7. Protect workmen by a shield erected in  the  working  chamber  when
      such  chamber is less than ten feet long and is suspended with more than
      nine feet space between its deck and the bottom of the excavation;
        8. Provide for and keep accessible to employees working in  compressed
      air a dressing room heated, lighted and ventilated properly and supplied
      with benches, lockers, sanitary waterclosets, bathing facilities and hot
      and cold water;
        9.  Establish  and  maintain  a medical lock properly heated, lighted,
      ventilated and supplied with medicines and surgical implements, when the
      maximum air pressure exceeds seventeen pounds.