§ 722.111 - Miner.

(a) An individual shall be entitled to receive benefits for total disability due to pneumoconiosis if he is a miner as defined in this section and if such individual is totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis (see §§ 722.117-722.120).

(b) Such individual shall be entitled to receive benefits until his death or until such disability ceases.

(c) For purposes of this part an individual is a miner if he is or was employed in a coal mine.

(d) For purposes of this part, “Coal mine” means an area of land and all structures, facilities, machinery, tools, equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels, excavations, and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under, or above the surface of such land by any person, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from the work of extracting in such area bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite, from its natural deposits in the earth by any means or method, and the work of preparing the coal so extracted, and includes custom coal preparation facilities.

(e) Any State workmen's compensation law which does not separately define miner or coal miner shall be deemed adequate for purposes of this section if such law contains a definition or use of the terms employee, worker, or any other related term which is sufficiently broad to encompass all individuals contemplated by the term miner as defined in this section.