Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024
(1)
Occupations.
(a) Work of operating an
elevator, crane, derrick, hoist, or high-lift truck, except operating an
unattended automatic-operation passenger elevator or an electric or
air-operated hoist not exceeding 1-ton capacity.
(b) Work which involves riding on a manlift
or on a freight elevator, except a freight elevator operated by an assigned
operator.
(c) Work on assisting in
the operation of a crane, derrick, or hoist performed by crane hookers, crane
chasers, hookers-on, riggers, rigger helpers, and like occupations.
(2) Definitions.
(a) The term "elevator" shall mean any
power-driven hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform
which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction. The term shall
include both passenger and freight elevators, (including portable elevators or
tiering machines) but shall not include dumbwaiters.
(b) The term "crane" shall mean a
power-driven machine for lifting and lowering a load and moving it
horizontally, in which the hoisting mechanism is an integral part of the
machine. The term shall include all types of cranes, such as cantilever gantry,
crawler, gantry, hammerhead, ingot-pouring, jib, locomotive, motor truck,
overhead traveling, pillar jib, pintle, portal, semigantry, semiportal, storage
bridge, tower, walking jib, and wall cranes.
(c) The term "derrick" shall mean a
power-driven apparatus consisting of a mast or equivalent members held at the
top by guys or braces, with or without a boom, for use with a hoisting
mechanism and operating ropes. The term shall include all types of derricks,
such as A-frame, breast, Chicago boom, gin-pole, guy, and stiff-leg derricks.
(d) The term "hoist" shall mean a
power-driven apparatus for raising or lowering a load by the application of a
pulling force that does not include a car or platform running in guides. The
term shall include all types of hoists, such as base-mounted electric, clevis
suspension, hook suspension, monorail, overhead electric, simple drum, and
trolley suspension hoists.
(e) The
term "high-lift truck" shall mean a power-driven industrial type of truck used
for lateral transportation that is equipped with a power-operated lifting
device usually in the form of a fork or platform capable of tiering loaded
pallets or skids one above the other. Instead of a fork, or platform, the
lifting device may consist of a ram, scoop, shovel, crane, revolving fork, or
other attachments for handling specific loads. The term shall mean and include
high-lift trucks known under such names as forklifts, fork trucks, forklift
trucks, tiering trucks, or stacking trucks, but shall not mean low-lift trucks
or low-lift platform trucks, that are designed for the transportation of, but
not the tiering of, material.
(f)
The term "manlift" shall mean a device intended for the conveyance of persons
which consists of platforms or brackets mounted on, or attached to, an endless
belt, cable, chain or similar method of suspension; such belt, cable, or chain
operating in a substantially vertical direction and being supported by and
driven through pulleys, sheaves or sprockets at the top or bottom.
(3) Exception. This section shall
not prohibit the operation of an automatic elevator and an automatic
signal-operation elevator provided that the exposed portion of the car interior
(exclusive of vents and other necessary small openings), the car door, and the
hoistway doors are constructed of solid surfaces without any opening through
which a part of the body may extend; all hoistway openings at floor level have
doors which are interlocked with the car door so as to prevent the car from
starting until all such doors are closed and locked; the elevator (other than
hydraulic elevators) is equipped with a device which will stop and hold the car
in case of overspeed or if the cable slackens or breaks; and the elevator is
equipped with upper and lower travel limit devices which will normally bring
the car to rest at either terminal and a final limit switch which will prevent
the movement in either direction and will open in case of excessive over-travel
by the car.
Definitions as used in this exception:
(a) For the purpose of this exception the
term "automatic elevator" shall mean a passenger elevator, a freight elevator,
or a combination passenger-freight elevator, the operation of which is
controlled by pushbuttons in such a manner that the starting, going to the
landing selected, leveling and holding, and the opening and closing of the car
and hoistway doors are entirely automatic.
(b) For the purpose of this exception, the
term "automatic signal-operation elevator" shall mean an elevator which is
started in response to the operation of a switch (such as a lever or
pushbutton) in the car which when operated by the operator actuates a starting
device that automatically closes the car and hoistway doors from this point on,
the movement of the car to the landing selected, leveling and holding when it
gets there, and the opening of the car andhoistway doors are entirely
automatic.
