The Himachal Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950

Rule 96

SCHEDULE IX

 

 

 

(1) Accidents which cause

            (a) death to any person

            (b) such bodily injury as prevents or will probably prevent the persons injured from working for a period of 48 hours immediately following the accident.

 

(2) The following classes of dangerous occurrences whether or not they are attended by personal injury or disablement,

 

(a)     Bursting of a plant used for containing or supplying steam under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure other than a plant which comes within the scope of the Indian Boilers Act

 

(b)     Collapse or failure of a crane, derrick, winch, hoist or other appliances used in raising or lowering persons or goods, or any part thereof, or the overturning of a crane;

 

(c)     Explosion or fire causing damage to any room of place in which persons are employed, or fire, in rooms of cotton pressing factories where a cotton opener is in use;

 

(d)     Explosion of receiver or container used for the storage at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure of any gas or gases (including air) or any liquid or solid resulting from the compression of gas;

 

(e)     Collapse or subsidence of any floor, gallery, roof, bridge, tunnel, chimney, wall, building forming part of a factory or within the compound or cartilage of a factory,