California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 7 - General Industry Safety Orders
Group 13 - Cranes and Other Hoisting Equipment
Section 4881 - General
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Posted warnings. Posted warnings required by Group 13 as well as those supplied with the equipment by the manufacturer shall be maintained in legible condition.
(b) All exhaust pipes, turbochargers, and charge air coolers shall be insulated or guarded where inadvertent contact by employees (except for maintenance and repair employees) is possible in the performance of normal duties.
(c) Load hooks, ball assemblies and load blocks shall be of sufficient weight to overhaul the line from the highest hook position for boom or boom and jib lengths and the number of parts of the line in use.
(d) Hook and ball assemblies, load blocks.
EXCEPTION: Hooks without latches, or with latches removed or disabled, shall not be used unless a qualified person has determined that it is safer to hoist and place the load without latches (or with the latches removed/tied-back).
(e) Cabs (Supplemental requirements for cranes in construction).
Equipment with cabs shall meet the following requirements:
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.