COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

§ 860.
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HEALTH AND SAFETY APPLIANCES. Tit. V, Ch. 4.
3 sioner at the request of the employer or of the employee, and if on
4 such review the commissioner finds the condition of the employee
5 warrants such action, he may end, diminish or increase the compen-
6 sation, subject to the maximum or minimum amounts provided for in
7 this chapter. All hearings upon review by the Iowa industrial com-
8 missioner under the provisions of this section, or under section eight
9 hundred forty-one of the compiled code, shall be held at Des Moines,
10 Iowa, unless the interested parties and the Iowa industrial commis-
11 sioner mutually agree by written stipulation that the same may be held
12 at some other place.
13 Upon the presentation to the court of a certified copy of a de-
14 cisión of the industrial commissioner ending, diminishing or increas-
15 ing a weekly payment under the provisions of this chapter, the court
16 shall revoke or modify any judgment or decree then on record in his
17 court to conform to such decision.
18 Any notice to be given by the commissioner or court provided
19 for in this chapter shall be in writing, but service thereof shall be
20 sufficient if registered and deposited in the mail, addressed to the last
21 known address of the parties.
[S., '13, § 2477-m34 ; 37 G. A., ch. 270, § 18.]
CHAPTER 4.
HEALTH AND SAFETY APPLIANCES.
SECTION 860. Safety appliances—steam boilers—tumbling rods—
operation of dangerous machinery by minors—exceptions.
1 It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, superintendent or other.
2 person having charge of any manufacturing or other establishment
3 where machinery is used, to furnish and supply or cause to be fur-
4 nished and supplied therein, belt shifters or other safe mechanical
5 contrivances for the purpose of throwing belts on and off pulleys,
6 and, wherever possible, machinery therein shall be provided with loose
7 pulleys; all saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set screws
8 and machinery of every description therein shall be properly guarded.
9 Any person owning or operating steam boilers in this state shall
10 provide the same with steam gauge, safety valve and water gauge,
11 and keep the same in good order. Any person neglecting so to do
12 shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.
13 If any person run any threshing machine in this state without
14 having two lengths of tumbling rods next the machine, together with
15 the knuckles or joints and jacks of the tumbling rods safely boxed
16 and secured while the machine is running, he shall be fined not less
17 than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every day or part of day he
18 shall violate this section.
19 No person under sixteen years of age, and no female under eight-
20 een years of age, shall be permitted or directed to clean niachinery
21 while in motion. Children under sixteen years of age shall not be
22 permitted to operate or assist in operating dangerous machinery of
23 any kind : provided that this clause shall not be interpreted to include
24 pupils working under an instructor in manual training departments