W. Va. Code § 22A-2-59
First-aid equipment.
(a) Each operator of an underground coal mine shall maintain a supply of first-aid equipment at each of the following locations:
- (1) At the mine dispatcher’s office and on the surface in close proximity to the mine entry.
- (2) At the bottom of each regularly traveled slope or shaft; however, where the bottom of such slope or shaft is not more than one thousand feet from the surface, such first-aid supplies may be maintained on the surface at the entrance of the mine.
- (3) At a point in each working section not more than five hundred feet outby the active working face or faces.
(b) The first-aid equipment required to be maintained shall include at least the following:
- (1) One stretcher.
- (2) One broken-back board.
- (3) Twenty-four triangular bandages.
- (4) Eight four-inch bandage compresses.
- (5) Sixteen two-inch bandage compresses.
- (6) Twelve one-inch adhesive compresses.
- (7) One foille.
- (8) Two cloth blankets.
- (9) One rubber blanket.
- (10) Two tourniquets.
- (11) One one-ounce bottle of aromatic spirits of ammonia.
- (12) Two inflatable plastic arm splints.
- (13) Two inflatable plastic leg splints.
- (14) Six small splints, metal or wooden.
- (15) Two cold packs.
- (16) One automated external defibrillator (AED) unit.
- (c) All first-aid supplies required to be maintained under the section shall be stored in suitable sanitary, dust-tight, moisture-proof containers and such supplies shall be accessible to the miners.
- (d) No first-aid material shall be removed or diverted without authorization, except in case of accident in or about the mine.
- (e) On all occasions when a person becomes sick or injured underground to the extent that he or she must go to the surface, he or she shall be accompanied by one or more persons.