# The Miscellaneous Factories (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1993, Paragraph 9


The occupier of any iron foundry or steel foundry shall ensure that no person carries out any work within a distance of 4 metres from a vertical line passing through the delivery end of any spout of a cupola or furnace, being a spout used for delivering molten metal, or within a distance of 2.4 metres from a vertical line passing through the nearest part of any ladle which is in position at the end of such a spout, except, in either case, where it is necessary for the proper use or maintenance of a cupola or furnace that that work should be carried out within that distance or that work is being carried out at such a time and under such conditions that there is no danger to the person carrying it out from molten metal which is being obtained from the cupola or furnace or is in a ladle in position at the end of the spout.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2482/schedule/2/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-factories-transitional-provisions-regulations-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-9
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