---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 50.10"
title: "30"
number: "50.10"
heading: "Immediate notification."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/50.10"
---

# §50.10. Immediate notification.


The operator shall immediately contact MSHA at once without delay and within 15 minutes at the toll-free number, 1-800-746-1553, once the operator knows or should know that an accident has occurred involving:

- (a) A death of an individual at the mine;
- (b) An injury of an individual at the mine which has a reasonable potential to cause death;
- (c) An entrapment of an individual at the mine which has a reasonable potential to cause death; or
- (d) **Any other accident.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[74 FR 68919, Dec. 29, 2009]

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 557(a); 30 U.S.C. 811, 813(j), 951, 957, 961.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 65535, Dec. 30, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[74 FR 68919, Dec. 29, 2009]