Any person or corporation operating any coal mine in which miners or other laborers are employed to mine or cut coal for a compensation to be determined by the weight of the coal mined or cut, who fails to weigh or causes to be weighed accurately and correctly any coal so mined or cut by such miners or laborers, must, on conviction, be fined for each offense not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00.
Ala. Code § 25-9-345 (1975)