Mich. Admin. Code R. 408.6204 - Definitions; H to O
Rule 204. As used in this part:
(a) "Hazardous substances" means a
contaminant, substance, or mixture of substances which is toxic, corrosive, an
irritant, a strong sensitizer, or flammable or which generates pressure through
decomposition, heat, or other means, if the substance or mixture of substances
is capable of causing substantial personal injury, impairment, or substantial
illness through absorption, inhalation, or personal contact. The signal word to
designate the degree of hazard is "DANGER" as prescribed in R 408.11612 of the
Michigan Administrative Code.
(b)
"Hoist" means 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.
(c) "Low-lift platform
truck" means a self-loading truck equipped with a load platform intended
primarily for transporting, but not the tiering of, loaded skid
platforms.
(d) "Manlift" means 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, which operates in a substantially vertical direction, and
which is supported by and driven through pulleys, sheaves, or sprockets at the
top or bottom.
(e) "Minor" means a
person under 18 years of age, but does not include any of the following:
(i) An individual 16 years of age or older
who has completed the requirements for graduation from high school.
(ii) An individual 16 years of age or older
who has successfully passed the general educational development test.
(iii) An emancipated individual as defined by
section 4 of 1968 PA 293, as amended, MCL 722.4.
(f) "Motorized hand truck" means a truck
designed for the transportation of, but not the tiering of, materials that are
to be controlled by a walking operator.
(g) "Motor vehicle" means any automobile,
truck, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer, motorcycle, or similar vehicle
propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designed for use as a means of
transportation, but does not include any vehicle operated exclusively on
rails.
(h) "Occupations in
connection with logging" means all work performed in connection with any of the
following:
(i) The felling of
timber.
(ii) The bucking or
converting of timber into any of the following:
(A) Logs.
(B) Poles.
(C) Piles.
(D) Ties.
(E) Bolts.
(F) Pulpwood.
(G) Chemical wood.
(H) Excelsior wood.
(I) Cordwood.
(J) Fence posts.
(K) Similar products.
(iii) The collecting, skidding, yarding,
loading, transporting, and unloading of the products specified in paragraph
(ii) of this subdivision in connection with logging.
(iv) The constructing, repairing, and
maintaining of roads, railroads, flumes, or camps used in connection with
logging.
(v) The moving,
installing, rigging, and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in
logging.
(i)
"Occupations in or about slaughtering and meat-packing establishments,
rendering plants, or wholesale, retail, or service establishments" means all
work performed in or about such establishments in connection with any of the
following:
(i) Work on the killing floor, in
curing cellars, and in hide cellars.
(ii) Work involving the recovery of lard and
oils.
(iii) Work involving the
tankage or rendering of any of the following:
(A) Dead animals.
(B) Animal offal.
(C) Animal fats.
(D) Scrap meats.
(E) Blood and bones into stock
feeds.
(F) Tallow.
(G) Inedible greases.
(H) Fertilizer ingredients.
(I) Similar products.
(iv) Work involving the operation or feeding
of all power-driven meat-processing machines.
(v) Work involving any boning
operations.
(vi) Work involving the
hand-lifting or hand-carrying of any carcass or half carcass of beef, pork, or
horse or any quarter carcass of beef or horse.
(vii) Work involving the pushing or dropping
of any suspended carcass, half carcass, or quarter carcass.
(j) "Occupations in the operation
of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle, or cooperage stock mill" means all work
performed in or about any such mill in connection with any of the following:
(i) Storing of logs and bolts.
(ii) Converting logs or bolts into sawn
lumber, laths, shingles, or cooperage stock.
(iii) Storing, drying, and shipping lumber,
laths, shingles, cooperage stock, or other products of such mills.
(iv) Other work performed in connection with
the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock
mill.
(k) "Operations in
and around a mine or quarry" means all work performed at any of the following
locations:
(i) Underground in mines or
quarries.
(ii) On the surface at
underground mines and underground operations.
(iii) At or about placer mining
operations.
(iv) At or about
bore-hole mining operations.
(v) At
or about dredging operations for clay, sand, or gravel.
(vi) In or about all metal mills, washer
plants, or grinding mills which reduce the bulk of the extracted
minerals.
(vii) At or about any
other crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing, or cleaning operations
performed upon the extracted minerals, except where such operations are
performed as a part of a manufacturing process.
(l) "Outside helper" means any individual,
other than the driver, whose work includes riding on a motor vehicle outside
the cab.
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