W. Va. Code R. § 48-4-3 - Experience Requirements

3.1. An applicant for initial mine rescue training shall have been employed underground for a total of one (1) year or more within the three (3) preceding years except that members of contract mine rescue teams shall have a minimum of three (3) years underground coal mine experience that shall have occurred within the ten (10) year period preceding their employment on the contract mine rescue team. For the purpose of mine rescue work only, miners who are employed on the surface but work regularly underground meet the experience requirement. The underground experience requirement is waived for those members of a mine rescue team on the effective date of this rule.

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W. Va. Code R. § 48-4-3