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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 259 both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. In addition to the penalties herein provided, in the event of refusal or neglect of any person, firm or corporation, or his, or its agent, to comply with the provisions of the three preceding sections, the use of any such scaffold, hoist, crane, stays, ladder, support, or other mechanical contrivance, or the erection, repairing, alteration, removal or painting of any building, bridge, viaduct, steel tank, or other structure, may be prohibited by the Labor Commissioner, or inspector deputized by him, and a notice to that effect shall be posted upon the premises. Such notice shall not be removed until such scaffold, hoist, crane, stays, ladder, support or other mechanical contrivance or temporary floorings are properly and safely constructed. R.L.1910, § 3775; Laws 1919, c. 149, p. 217, § 1.
§40-178. Damages for injury. An employer shall be responsible in damages for personal injury caused to an employee, who, was himself in the exercise of due care and diligence at the time he was injured, by reason of any defect in the condition of the machinery or appliances connected with or used in the business of the employer which arose, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer, or of any person entrusted by him with the duty of inspection, repair, or of seeing that the machinery or appliances were in proper condition. R.L.1910, § 3776.
§40-179. Railroad repair tracks to be sheltered. It shall be unlawful for any railroad, corporation, or other person, who owns, controls or operates any lines of railroad in the state, to build, construct or repair railroad equipment without first erecting and maintaining at every division point a building or shed over the repair tracks; same to be provided with a floor where such construction or repair is permanently done, so as to provide that all men employed in the construction and repair of cars, trucks, and other railroad equipment, shall be under shelter during snows, sleet, rain, and other inclement weather. R.L.1910, § 3777.
§40-180. Penalty. Every person or corporation, or manager, superintendent, foreman or agent of any person or corporation, who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of the preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); and each day that said person or corporation, or its manager, superintendent, foreman or