§ 33.43. Transportation of sick or injured persons.

 (a)  General requirement. Any person injured or becoming ill in or about a pit or quarry to the an extent as to render him unable to walk to his home or to the hospital shall be transported to his home or to the hospital.

 (b)  Stretchers. Pits or quarries shall maintain at least two stretchers for the transportation of sick or injured persons.

 (c)  Ambulances. Each pit or quarry shall maintain one motor ambulance capable of accommodating two sick or injured persons and two attendants, with the following exceptions:

   (1)  No motor ambulance shall be required at any pit or quarry where the greatest number of persons employed at any time is less than 15.

   (2)  No motor ambulance shall be required at any pit or quarry where the owner or operator maintains a plant hospital with adequate bed and operating room facilities for the care of sick or injured workmen. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit two or more pits or quarries from erecting and maintaining a joint plant hospital to meet the requirements of this section.

   (3)  Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit the creation of an ambulance pool by two or more pits or quarries using the same motor ambulance if each pit or quarry so participating is not more than 15 miles from the central ambulance station and each participating pit or quarry is in direct telephone or telegraph communication with such ambulance station and there is always a driver or other person on duty at the central ambulance station, capable of receiving an ambulance call during the working hours of all participating pits or quarries.

   (4)  No ambulance is required at any pit or quarry if the place of abode of all the workmen at such pit or quarry is within a radius of 1/2 mile from the principal entrance to the pit or quarry or if such principal entrance to the pit or quarry is located within a radius of 15 miles from the nearest hospital or nearest ambulance station maintained by an undertaker or any other public or private agency, and if the ambulance complies with the specifications of this section. The motor ambulance shall be the equivalent of the United States Army specifications for motor ambulances. Except in the case of an ambulance pool as permitted by this section, a light covered truck, operated on pneumatic tires, shall be accepted if the stretchers may be suspended by springs from the roof or corner posts and further if the truck, if used for other purposes, is never away from the pit or quarry for a period of time greater than one hour during the working hours.

 (d)  Other means of transportation. In the event that any sick or injured person may be transported more quickly and conveniently to his home or to a hospital by railroad or electric railway the mode of conveyance is permitted; but in all the cases conveyance shall be effected under cover and the comfort of the sick or injured person provided for in this subchapter. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit the removal of a sick or injured employe to his home or to a hospital in an automobile in case of sickness or slight injury not requiring the use of a stretcher.

   This section cited in 34 Pa. Code §  33.151 (relating to cabinets).