(A) The following occupations involved in the
operation of power-driven hoisting apparatus are prohibited for minors under
eighteen years of age:
(1) Work of
operating
, tending, riding upon, working from,
repairing, servicing, or disassembling 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 one ton
capacity.
Tending such equipment includes assisting in
the hoisting tasks being performed by the equipment.
(2) Work
which
involves riding on
of operating, tending riding
upon, working from, repairing, servicing, or disassembling a manlift or
on a freight elevator
, except a freight elevator operated by an assigned
operator.
Tending such equipment includes assisting in
the hoisting tasks being performed by the equipment.
(3) 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.
(B) Definitions:
(1) The term "elevator" shall mean any
power-driven hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform
which
that
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.
(2) 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, semi-gantry, semi-portal,
storage bridge, tower, walking jib, and wall cranes.
(3) 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, buy, and stiff-leg derricks.
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.
(4) 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.
(5) The term "manlift" shall mean a device
intended for the conveyance of persons
which
that 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.
(6)
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, hood
suspension, monorail, overhead electric, simple drum, and trolley suspension
hoists.
(D) Definitions as used in this exception:
(1) 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.
(2) For the purpose of this exception, the
term "automatic signal operation elevator" shall mean an elevator
which
that is
started in response to the operation of a switch (such as a lever or
pushbutton) in the car
which
that when operated by the operator actuates a starting
device that automatically closes the car and hoistway doors
-
and 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 and hoistway doors are
entirely automatic.
