| 1 bell: | Stop immediately if in motion. |
| 2 bells: | Lower. |
| 3-1 bells: | Hoisting men, run slowly. |
| 3-2 bells: | Lowering men. |
| 1-1 bells: | To hoist muck. |
| 2-1-2 bells: | Release cage, skip, or bucket. |
| 4 slow bells: | Blasting signal. (This is a caution signal and if the hoist operator is prepared to accept it he must acknowledge it by raising cage, skip or bucket a few feet then lowering it again. After accepting this signal, hoist operator must be prepared to hoist men away from blast as soon as signal 3-1 bells are given and must accept no other signal in the meantime.) |
| 5 bells: | Water on or off. |
| 6 bells: | Air on or off. |
| 9 bells: | Danger signal (fire, accident or other danger), followed by station signal, calls cage, skip, or bucket to that station. This signal takes precedence over all others except an accepted blasting signal. |
(4) Where tunnels are driven from shafts more than two hundred fifty feet deep, a telephone system shall be established and maintained, communicating with the surface at each such shaft, and with a station or stations readily and quickly accessible to the men at the working level.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter
49.17 RCW. WSR 90-17-051 (Order 90-10), § 296-36-180, filed 8/13/90, effective 9/24/90; Rules (Part XIV), filed 12/28/62.]