{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-351.193","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 351.193","heading":"Safety rights of miners -- Settlement of disputes.","body":"No miner shall be required to operate any equipment or work in any condition which he\nreasonably believes to be unsafe. If the miner invokes his or her safety rights under this\nsection, the miner shall have the right to be relieved from the assignment in d ispute. The\nemployee may be assigned to correct the condition or may be assigned to other duties\nuntil such time as the condition is resolved or corrected. No other miner shall be assigned\nto perform this job until the condition is corrected. The miner or his authorized\nrepresentative and the company shall review the condition immediately and attempt to\nresolve the dispute.  Should the miner not have an authorized representative, he may\nrepresent himself in the dispute. If the dispute is not settled by the company and the miner\nor his or her authorized representative, either party reserves the right to call in the\ncommissioner or his authorized representative immediately and the dispute shall be\nsettled on the basis of the inspector's finding with a written copy of his finding given to\nthe company and the miner and his authorized representative. In the event no\nrepresentative of the miner exists, the employee shall have the right to have the dispute\nresolved based on the inspector's findings. No disciplinary action shall be taken against a\nminer by a licensee unless the miner is found by the commissioner or his authorized\nrepresentative to have acted in bad faith and without good cause in making an allegation\nas to unsafe equipment or working conditions.","path":["KRS Chapter 351"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=32939","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:37Z","sha256":"50e7991e3ef72cecc594077aaaae24639a30f7b4443264545224ce1f89ace1fe","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-351.192","next":"us-ky/krs-351.194"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}