---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 45.4"
title: "30"
number: "45.4"
heading: "Independent contractor register."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/45.4"
---

# §45.4. Independent contractor register.

- (a) Each independent contractor shall provide the production-operator in writing the following information:
  - (1) The independent contractor's trade name, business address and business telephone number;
  - (2) A description of the nature of the work to be performed by the independent contractor and where at the mine the work is to be performed;
  - (3) The independent contractor's MSHA identification number, if any; and
  - (4) The independent contractor's address of record for service of citations, or other documents involving the independent contractor.
- (b) Each production-operator shall maintain in writing at the mine the information required by [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section for each independent contractor at the mine. The production-operator shall make this information available to any authorized representative of the Secretary upon request.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 802(d), 957.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 44496, July 1, 1980, unless otherwise noted.