GENERAL INDUSTRY SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD PART …

1 MIOSHA-STD-1119 (02/18) For further information 26 Pages Ph: 517-284-7740. DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE. GENERAL INDUSTRY SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD . Filed with the Secretary of State on December 28, 1970 (as amended October 25, 1972). (as amended November 1, 1974) (as amended October 28, 1976) (as amended April 2, 1979). (as amended November 7, 1980) (as amended March 2, 1983) (as amended April 11, 2000). (as amended May 29, 2013) (as amended August 10, 2016) (as amended February 1, 2018). These rules become effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State unless adopted under section 33, 44, or 45a(6) of 1969 PA 306. Rules adopted under these sections become effective 7 days after filing with the Secretary of State. (By authority conferred on the director of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs by sections 16 and 21 of 1974 PA 154, MCL and , and Executive Reorganization Order Nos. 1996-2, 2003-1, 2008-4, and 2011-4, MCL , , , and ).

2 R , R , R , R , R , R , R , and R of the Michigan Administrative Code is amended, as follows: GENERAL INDUSTRY SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD . PART 21. POWERED INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS. Table of Contents: R Scope.. 2 R Blocks and SAFETY stands for R Definitions; A to C.. 2 maintenance..10. R Definitions; D to F.. 2 R Fuel..10. R Definitions; H to I.. 2 R Electric trucks..11. R Definitions; L.. 3 R Dockboards and plates..11. R Definitions; M, N.. 3 R Order picker trucks; high-lift platforms..11. R Definitions; O, P.. 3 R Fork lift truck platforms..12. R Definitions; R to U.. 3 R Load backrest extensions..12. R Adopted and referenced standards.. 4 R Spinner knobs..12. NAMEPLATES AND MARKINGS .. 5 EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES ..12. R Approved labels.. 5 R Daily checks..12. EQUIPMENT .. 5 R GENERAL operating rules..12. R Warning devices and lights.. 5 R Position of arms and legs..12. R Modifications.. 5 R Parking..12. R Parking brakes; tires.. 5 R Towing and R Operator platforms.. 5 R Loading trucks, trailers, and railcars.

3 13. R Steering control.. 5 R Surveying path of travel..13. R Load handling controls, GENERAL .. 5 R Operations in hazardous areas..13. R Load handling controls; direction of R Reporting accidents..13. motion and guards.. 6 R Clear access..13. R Overhead guard on high-lift truck.. 7 R Making repairs..13. EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITIES .. 8 R Flammables..13. R Operator selection.. 8 MOVING TRUCKS ..13. R Training.. 8 R Operation..13. R Testing.. 8 R Slow down at crossings and R Permits.. 9 obstructions..13. R Restriction of use.. 10 R Clear view..13. R Mechanical condition and maintenance 10 R Ascending and descending grades..13. 1. R Traveling.. 13 LOADING SAFETY ..14. R Starts, stops, and turns.. 13 R Operators; loading..14. R Horseplay.. 13. R Wet floors, dockboards, and Appendix A - Types Of Trucks ..15. bridge-plates.. 14 Appendix B - Fork Truck Pre-Operation Inspection R Entering elevators.. 14 R Running over loose objects.. 14 Appendix C - Stability Of Powered Industrial Trucks.

4 22. R Scope. R Definitions; D to F. Rule 2101. The purpose of these rules is to provide, in Rule 2105. (1) "Drift" means to move without control. or about places of employment, minimum SAFETY rules (2) "Electric truck" means a truck in which the for the care and use of powered industrial trucks and to principal energy is transmitted to motors in the form of provide for operator SAFETY and specifications of electricity from a power source such as, but not limited equipment. to, a battery or motor generator. (3) "End-control truck" means a truck in which the R Definitions; A to C. operator's position is located at the end opposite the Rule 2103. (1) "Attachment" means a device, other load. than conventional forks or load backrest extension, (4) "Fixed platform truck" means a truck equipped mounted permanently or removed on the elevating with a load platform which is non-elevating. mechanism of a truck for handling the load. Popular (5) "Forks" means horizontal tine-like projections, attachments are fork extensions, clamps, rotating normally suspended from the carriage, for engaging and devices, side shifters, load stabilizers, rams, and supporting loads.

5 Booms. (6) "Fork height" means the vertical distance from (2) "Cantilever truck" means a self-loading the floor to the load carrying surface adjacent to the heel counter-balanced or non-counterbalanced truck of the forks with mast vertical, and in the case of a reach equipped with cantilever load engaging means. truck, with the forks extended. (Appendix A. Figure 1) (7) "Fork-lift truck" means a light-lift self-loading (3) "Capacity" when referring to trucks, means the truck equipped with load carriage and forks for following: transporting and tiering loads. (a) The capacity of a truck equipped with a load (8) "Free play" means an uncontrolled movement. carriage and forks, or with attachments, is the maximum weight in pounds, at a specified load center which the R Definitions; H to I. truck, based on the strength of its various components Rule 2106. (1) "High-lift truck" means a self-loading and applicable stability, can lift to the maximum truck equipped with an elevating mechanism designed elevation of the load engaging means.

6 Alternate to permit tiering. Popular types are high-lift fork trucks, capacities may be established at the same specified high-lift ram trucks, high-lift boom trucks, high-lift clamp load center and at less than maximum elevation of the trucks, and high-lift platform trucks. (Appendix A, load engaging means. Figure 1.). (b) The capacity of a truck equipped with a (2) "High-lift platform truck" means a self-loading platform is the maximum weight in pounds, at a truck equipped with a load platform, intended primarily specified load center which the truck, based on the for transporting and tiering loaded skid platforms. strength of its various components, can lift to the (Appendix A, Figure 2.). maximum elevation of the load engaging means. (3) "Industrial crane truck" means a truck (4) "Carriage" means a support structure for forks intended primarily for pick and carry use in warehousing, or attachment, generally roller mounted, traveling yarding, or industrial plant operation over improved or vertically within the mast of a cantilever truck.

7 Hard surfaced roads and yards, including maintenance (5) "Center-control truck" means a truck in which within these areas. the operator's control position is located near the (4) "Industrial tractor" means a truck designed longitudinal center of the truck. primarily to draw 1 or more non-powered trucks, trailers, (6) "Counterbalanced truck" means a truck or other mobile loads. (Appendix A, Figure 5.). equipped with load engaging means wherein all the load (5) "Internal combustion engine truck" means a during normal transporting is external to the polygon truck in which the power source is a gas, LP gas, formed by the wheel contacts. (Appendix A, Figure 1.) gasoline, or diesel type engine. (6) "Issuing authority" means an employer or his or her designated representative who instructed and trained the operator. 2. R Definitions; L. (3) "Overhead guard" means a framework fitted to Rule 2107. (1) "Liquefied petroleum gas (LP gas)" a truck over the head of a riding operator.

8 Means a fuel that is composed predominantly of any of (4) "Overall lowered mast height" means the the following hydrocarbons, or mixtures of them: maximum vertical dimension from the ground or floor to propane, propylene, butanes (normal butane or the extreme top point of the mast with the fork carriage iso-butane), and butylenes. in the fully lowered position and unloaded. (2) "Load-axle" means the truck axle nearest the (5) "Pallet truck" means a self-loading low-lift load. truck equipped with wheeled forks of dimensions to go (3) "Load backrest extension" means a device under a single faced pallet or between the top and extending vertically from the fork carriage frame. bottom boards of a double faced pallet and having (4) "Load center" means the horizontal wheels capable of lowering into spaces between the longitudinal distance from the intersection of the bottom boards so as to raise the pallet off the floor for horizontal load-carrying surfaces and vertical transportation.

9 (Appendix A, Figure 4). load-engaging faces of the forks, or equivalent load (6) "Parking brake" means a device to prevent the positioning structure, to the center of gravity of the load. movement of a stationary truck. (5) "Load engaging means" means a load (7) "Powered industrial truck" or "truck" means a handling device attached to a powered industrial truck mobile , power driven vehicle used to carry, push, pull, for the purpose of handling a load. lift, stack, or tier material. (6) "Low-lift truck" means a self-loading truck equipped with an elevating mechanism designed to R Definitions; R to U. raise the load sufficiently to permit horizontal movement. Rule 2110. (1) "Reach truck" means a self-loading Popular types are low-lift platform trucks and pallet truck, generally high-lift, having load engaging means trucks. (Appendix A, Figure 3). mounted so the means can be extended forwardly under (7) "Low-lift platform truck" means a self-loading control to permit a load to be picked up and deposited in truck equipped with a load platform intended primarily the extended position and transported in the retracted for transporting loaded skid platforms.

10 (Appendix A, position. (Appendix A, Figure 7.). Figure 3). (2) "Rough terrain forklift truck" means a wheeled-type truck which is designed primarily as a fork R Definitions; M, N. truck that has a vertical mast or pivoted boom, or both, Rule 2108. (1) "Mast" means a support member which has variable fixed length reach and which may be providing the guideways permitting vertical movement equipped with attachments and that is intended for of the carriage. It is usually constructed in the form of operation on unimproved natural terrain as well as the channels or similar sections providing the supporting disturbed terrain of construction sites. A machine that is pathway for the carriage rollers. designed primarily for earth-moving, such as a loader or (2) "Motorized hand truck" means a truck dozer, even though its buckets and blades are replaced designed to be controlled by a walking operator and with forks or a machine that is designed primarily as an used to lift, tow, carry, stock, and tier materials.