Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 19, September 20, 2024
A. Except as
provided in §C of this regulation, this chapter applies to power operated
equipment, when used in construction and demolition, that can hoist, lower, and
horizontally move a suspended load.
B. This chapter applies to all crane
operators, signal persons, riggers, and crane operator trainees, and to the
erection, operation, and dismantling of cranes used in construction and
demolition.
C. This chapter does
not apply to the following equipment:
(1)
Machinery included in §A of this regulation while it has been converted or
adapted for a non-hoisting/lifting use, and when used with chains, slings, or
other rigging to lift suspended loads.Such conversions/adaptations include, but
are not limited to, power shovels, excavators, and concrete pumps;
(2) Automotive wreckers and tow trucks when
used to clear wrecks and haul vehicles;
(3) Digger derricks:
(a) Used for auguring 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;
(b) Used in electric power
generation, transmission, and distribution work subject to 29 CFR Part 1926,
Subpart V, which shall comply with
29 CFR § 1926.950; and
(c) Used in construction work for
telecommunication service, as defined at
29 CFR § 1910.268(s)(40), which shall
comply with 29 CFR § 1910.268;
(4) Machinery originally designed as
vehicle-mounted aerial devices such as the type used for lifting personnel and
self-propelled elevating work platforms;
(5) Powered industrial trucks, such as
forklifts, except when configured to hoist and lower by means of a winch or
hook and horizontally move a suspended load;
(6) Mechanic's truck with a hoisting device
when used in activities related to equipment maintenance and repair;
(7) Machinery that hoists by using a
come-along or chainfall;
(8)
Telescopic/hydraulic gantry systems;
(9) Stacker cranes;
(10) Dedicated drilling rigs;
(11) Gin poles when used for the erection of
communication towers;
(12) Tree
trimming and tree removal work; and
(13) Except as provided in §D of this
regulation, articulating/knuckle-boom truck cranes when:
(a) Delivering material to a construction
site when used to transfer materials from the truck crane to the ground,
without arranging the materials in a particular sequence for hoisting;
and
(b) Delivering material to a
construction site when the crane is used to transfer building supply sheet
goods, including sheets of sheetrock, plywood, and roofing shingles, or
building supply packaged materials, including bags of cement, packages of
roofing shingles, and rolls of roofing felt, from the truck crane onto a
structure using a fork/cradle at the end of the boom, but only when the truck
crane is equipped with a properly functioning automatic overload prevention
device.
D.
This chapter applies to articulating/knuckle-boom truck cranes when:
(1) The articulating/knuckle-boom crane is
used to hold, support, or stabilize the material to facilitate a construction
activity, such as holding material in place while it is attached to the
structure;
(2) The material being
handled by the articulating/knuckle-boom crane is a prefabricated component
including, but not limited to, precast concrete members or panels, roof trusses
such as wooden, cold-formed metal, steel, or othermaterial, prefabricated
building sections such as, but not limited to, floor panels, wall panels, roof
panels, roof structures, or similar items;
(3) The material being handled by the
articulating/knuckle-boom crane is a structural steel member such as steel
joists, beams, columns, steel decking, bundled or unbundled, or a component of
a systems-engineered metal building as defined in 29 CFR Part 1926, Subpart R;
or
(4) The activity is not
specifically excluded under COMAR 09.12.26.02B C(13)(a)(i) and (ii).
E. This chapter applies to the
equipment covered by this standard unless specified otherwise.
F. The duties of controlling entities under
this chapter include, but are not limited to, the duties specified in
29 CFR § 1926.1402(c) and (e) and
29 CFR § 1926.1424(b).
G. Where provisions of this chapter direct an
operator, crewmember, or other employee to take certain actions, the employer
shall establish, effectively communicate to the relevant persons, and enforce
work rules to ensure compliance with such provisions.
H. For work covered by
29 CFR § 1926.950, compliance with
29 CFR § 1910.269(p) is deemed
compliance with 29 CFR
§§ 1926.1407"1926.1411.
