State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > West-virginia > 22a > 22a-2-71§22A-2-71. Right of miner to refuse to operate unsafe equipment; procedure; discrimination.
No miner shall be required to operate unsafe equipment. On or before the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred eighty-one, the board of coal mine health and safety shall by rule or regulation establish a procedure for resolving disputes arising out of the refusal by a miner to operate such alleged unsafe equipment. No action shall be taken against a miner by an operator unless such miner is found to have acted in bad faith and without good cause by the director or his authorized representative.
