Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) The Orders in
this Group shall apply to derricks, cranes, and boom-type excavators, but they
shall not apply to aerial devices designed and used for positioning personnel
(See Article 24).
(1) This standard applies
to power operated equipment that can hoist, lower and horizontally move a
suspended load with or without attachments. Such equipment includes, but is not
limited to: articulating boom cranes (such as knuckle-boom cranes); crawler
cranes; floating cranes; cranes on barges; locomotive cranes; mobile cranes
(such as wheel-mounted, rough-terrain, all terrain, commercial truck-mounted,
and boom truck cranes); multi-purpose machines when configured to raise or
lower by means of a hoist and horizontally move a suspended load; industrial
cranes (such as carry deck cranes); cranes being used as dedicated pile
drivers; service/mechanic trucks with a hoisting device; a crane on a monorail;
tower cranes (such as a fixed jib, i.e., "hammerhead boom," luffing boom and
self-erecting); pedestal cranes; portal cranes; overhead/bridge and gantry
cranes; straddle cranes; side boom cranes; derricks; and variations of such
equipment. However, items listed in subsection (c) of this section are excluded
from the scope of this standard.
(2) Unless otherwise noted, the Orders in
this Group apply to all cranes having a maximum rated capacity greater than one
ton.
(b) Attachments.
This standard applies to equipment included in subsection (a) of this section
when used with attachments. Such attachments, whether crane-attached or
suspended include, but are not limited to: hooks, magnets, grapples, clamshell
buckets, orange peel buckets, concrete buckets, drag lines, personnel
platforms, augers or drills and pile driving equipment.
(c) Exclusions. Group 13 does not cover:
(1) Machinery included in subsection (a) of
this section while it has been converted or adapted for a non-hoisting/lifting
use. Such conversions/adaptations include, but are not limited to, power
shovels, excavators and concrete pumps.
(2) Power shovels and excavators (except as
prescribed by Article 94), wheel loaders, backhoes, loader backhoes, track
loaders.
(3) Automotive wreckers
and tow trucks when used to clear wrecks and haul vehicles.
(4) Digger derricks when used for augering
holes for poles carrying electric and telecommunication lines, placing and
removing the poles, and for handling associated materials to be installed on or
removed from the poles.
(A) Digger derricks
used in work subject to the Electrical Safety Orders shall comply with Section
2940.7 of those Safety
Orders.
(B) Digger derricks used in
construction work for telecommunication service (as defined in the
Telecommunication Safety Orders) shall comply with those Safety
Orders.
(5) Machinery
originally designed as vehicle-mounted aerial devices (for lifting personnel)
and self-propelled elevating work platforms.
(6) Telescopic/hydraulic gantry
systems.
(7) Stacker
cranes.
(8) Powered industrial
trucks (forklifts), except when configured to raise or lower by means of a
hoist and horizontally move a suspended load.
(9) Mechanic's truck with a hoisting device
when used in activities related to equipment maintenance and repair.
(10) Multi-purpose machines or industrial
trucks (forklifts) hoisting by use of a come-along or chainfall.
(11) Dedicated drilling rigs.
(12) Gin poles when used for the erection of
communication towers.
(13) Anchor
handling or dredge related operations with a vessel or barge using an affixed
A-frame.
(14) Unpowered, rolling
material lifts with hand-powered winches (roustabouts).
(15) Helicopter cranes.
(d) All sections of Group 13 apply to the
equipment within the scope of this standard unless specified
otherwise.
(e) For work covered by
the High-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders, compliance with those Orders is
deemed compliance with Sections
5003.1 through
5003.4 and Section
5010.4.
(f) Section
4991.1 does not apply to cranes
designed for use on railroad tracks, when used on railroad tracks that are part
of the general railroad system of transportation that is regulated pursuant to
the Federal Railroad Administration under 49 CFR part 213, and that comply with
applicable Federal Railroad Administration requirements. See Exception to
Section 4991.1.
1. New
section filed 7-26-2022; operative 7-26-2022 pursuant to Government Code
section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register 2022, No. 30). Filing deadline specified in Government Code section
11349.3(a)
extended 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20 and an additional
60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order
N-71-20.
Note: Authority cited: Section
142.3, Labor
Code. Reference: Section
142.3, Labor
Code.
