(a) Finding and declaration of fact. The following occupations
involved in the operation of power-driven hoisting apparatus are
particularly hazardous for minors between 16 and 18 years of age:
(1) 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 one ton
capacity.
(2) Work which involves riding on a manlift or on a freight
elevator, except a freight elevator operated by an assigned operator.
(3) Work of 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. As used in this section:
(1) 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.
(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 an hoisting mechanism or operating
ropes. The term shall include all types of derricks, such as A-frame,
breast, Chicago boom, gin-pole, guy and stiff-leg derrick.
(4) 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.
(5) 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 highlift trucks known
under such names as fork lifts, fork trucks, fork-lift 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.
(6) 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 and bottom.
(c) Exception. (1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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 and hoistway doors are
entirely automatic.
[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951, as amended at 20 FR 6386, Aug. 31, 1955.
Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, and amended at 28 FR 3449,
Apr. 9, 1963; 32 FR 15479, Nov. 7, 1967. Redesignated and amended at 36
FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971]
