Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Labor and Economic Opportunity
MIOSHA
General Industry and Construction Safety and Occupational Health Standards
General Industry Safety Standards
Part 21 - POWERED INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS
Section R. 408.12106 - Definitions; H to I

(1) "High-lift truck" means a self-loading truck equipped with an elevating mechanism designed to permit tiering. Popular types are high-lift fork trucks, high-lift ram trucks, high-lift boom trucks, high-lift clamp trucks, and high-lift platform trucks. (Appendix A, Figure 1.)

(2) "High-lift platform truck" means a self-loading truck equipped with a load platform, intended primarily for transporting and tiering loaded skid platforms. (Appendix A, Figure 2.)

(3) "Industrial crane truck" means a truck intended primarily for pick and carry use in warehousing, yarding, or industrial plant operation over improved or hard surfaced roads and yards, including maintenance within these areas.

(4) "Industrial tractor" means a truck designed primarily to draw 1 or more non-powered trucks, trailers, or other mobile loads. (Appendix A, Figure 5.)

(5) "Internal combustion engine truck" means a truck in which the power source is a gas, LP gas, gasoline, or diesel type engine.

(6) "Issuing authority" means an employer or his or her designated representative who instructed and trained the operator.