§ 1910.261 29 CFR Ch. XVII (7–1–11 Edition) U.S.C. 653, 655, 657); Secretary of Labor’s (4) Other standards. The following Order Nos. 12–71 (36 FR 8754), 8–76 (41 FR standards, which are incorporated by 25059), 9–83 (48 FR 35736), 1–90 (55 FR 9033), 6– reference as specified in § 1910.6, shall 96 (62 FR 111), or 5–2007 (72 FR 31159), as ap- be considered standards under this sec- plicable; and 29 CFR part 1911. tion: § 1910.261 Pulp, paper, and paper- (i) ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel board mills. Code, Section VIII, Unfired Pressure Vessels, including addenda 1969. (a) General requirements—(1) Applica- (ii) Building Exits Code for Life Safe- tion. This section applies to establish- ty from Fire, NFPA 101—1970. ments where pulp, paper, and paper- (iii) Safety in the Handling and Use board are manufactured and converted. of Explosives, IME Pamphlet No. 17, This section does not apply to logging July 1960, Institute of Makers of Explo- and the transportation of logs to pulp, sives. paper, and paperboard mills. (b) Safe practices—(1) Lockouts. De- (2) Standards incorporated by reference. vices such as padlocks shall be pro- Standards covering issues of occupa- vided for locking out the source of tional safety and health which have power at the main disconnect switch. general application without regard to Before any maintenance, inspection, any specific industry are incorporated cleaning, adjusting, or servicing of by reference in paragraphs (b) through equipment (electrical, mechanical, or (m) of this section and in subpara- other) that requires entrance into or graphs (3) and (4) of this paragraph and close contact with the machinery or made applicable under this section. equipment, the main power disconnect Such standards shall be construed ac- switch or valve, or both, controlling its cording to the rules set forth in § 1910.5. source of power or flow of material, (3) General incorporation of standards. shall be locked out or blocked off with Establishments subject to this section padlock, blank flange, or similar de- shall comply with the following stand- vice. ards of the American National Stand- (2) Emergency lighting. Emergency ards Institute, which are incorporated lighting shall be provided wherever it by reference as specified in § 1910.6: is necessary for employees to remain at (i) Practice for Industrial Lighting, their machines or stations to shut A11.1—1965 (R–1970). down equipment in case of power fail- (ii) Scheme for the Identification of ure. Emergency lighting shall be pro- Piping Systems, A13.1—1956. vided at stairways and passageways or (iii) Safety Code for Elevators, aisleways used by employees for emer- Dumbwaiters, and Moving Walks, gency exit in case of power failure. A17.1—1965, including Supplements Emergency lighting shall be provided A17.1a—1967, A17.1b—1968, A17.1c—1969, in all plant first aid and medical facili- and A17.1d—1970. ties. (iv) Practice for the Inspection of (c) Handling and storage of pulpwood Elevators (Inspector’s Manual), A17.2— and pulp chips—(1) Handling pulpwood 1960, including Suppelements A17.2a— with forklift trucks. Where large forklift 1965 and A17.2b—1967. trucks, or lift trucks with clam-jaws, (v) Safety Code for Conveyors, are used in the yard, the operator’s en- Cableways, and Related Equipment, closed cab shall be provided with an es- B20.1—1957. cape hatch, whenever the hydraulic (vi) Power Piping, B31.1.0—1967 and arm blocks escape through the side addenda B31.10a—1969. Fuel Gas Piping, doors. B31.2—1968. (2) Handling pulpwood with cranes or (vii) Identification of Gas-Mask Can- stackers. (i) Where locomotive cranes isters, K13.1—1967. are used for loading or unloading pulp- (viii) Prevention of Sulfur Fires and wood, the pulpwood shall be piled so as Explosions, Z12.12—1968. to allow a clearance of not less than 24 (ix) Installation of Blower and Ex- inches between the pile and the end of haust Systems for Dust, Stock, and the cab of any locomotive crane in use, Vapor Removal or Conveying, Z33.1— when the cab is turned in any working 1961. position. 702 VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:21 Aug 19, 2011 Jkt 223113 PO 00000 Frm 00712 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8002 Q:\29\29V5.TXT ofr150 PsN: PC150 Occupational Safety and Health Admin., Labor § 1910.261 (ii) The minimum distance of the (vi) A derail shall be used to prevent pulpwood pile from the centerline of a movement of other rail equipment into standard-gage track shall be main- cars where persons are working. tained at not less than 81⁄2 feet. (5) Handling pulpwood from trucks. (i) (iii) Logs shall be piled in an orderly Cutting of stakes and binder wires and stable manner, with no projection shall be done in accordance with para- into walkways or roadways. graph (c)4(iii) of this section. (iv) Railroad cars shall not be spotted (ii) Where binder chain and steel on tracks adjacent to the locomotive stakes are used, the binder chains shall cranes unless a 24-inch clearance is be released and the stakes tripped from maintained, as required in paragraph the opposite side of the load spillage. (c)(2)(i) of this section. (iii) Where binder chains and crane (v) The handling and storage of other slings are used, the crane slings shall materials shall conform to paragraphs be attached and taut before the binder (c)(2) (i) and (ii) of this section with re- chains are released. The hooker shall spect to clearance. see that the helper is clear before sig- (vi) No person shall be permitted to naling for the movement of the load. walk beneath a suspended load, bucket, (6) Handling pulp chips from railway or hook. cars. All cars shall be securely fastened (3) Handling pulpwood from ships. in place and all employees in the clear (i) [Reserved] before dumping is started. (ii) The hatch tender shall be re- (7) Handling pulp chips from trucks and quired to signal the hoisting engineer trailers. All trucks and trailers shall be to move the load only after the men securely fastened in place and all em- working in the hold are in the clear. ployees in the clear before dumping is (iii) The air in the ship’s hold, tanks, started. or closed vessels shall be tested for ox- (8) Cranes. ygen deficiency and for both toxic and (i) [Reserved] explosive gases and vapors. (ii) A safety device such as a heavy (4) Handling pulpwood from flatcars chain or cable at least equal in and all other railway cars. (i) Railroad strength to the lifting cables shall be flatcars for the conveyance of pulp- fastened to the boom and to the frame wood loaded parallel to the length of the car shall be equipped with safety- of the boom crane (if it is other than stake pockets. locomotive) at the base. Alternatively, a telescoping safety device shall be fas- (ii) Where pulpwood is loaded cross- tened to the boom and to the cab wise on a flatcar sufficient stakes of sizes not smaller than 4 by 4 inches frame, so as to prevent the boom from shall be used to prevent the load from snapping back over the cab in the shifting. event of lifting cable breakage. (iii) When it is necessary to cut (iii) A crane shall not be operated stakes, those on the unloading side where any part thereof may come with- should be partially cut through first, in 10 feet of overhead powerlines (or and then the binder wires cut on the other overhead obstructions) unless the opposite side. Wire cutters equipped powerlines have been deenergized. The with long extension handles shall be boom shall be painted bright yellow used. No person shall be permitted from and including the head sheave to along the dumping side of the car after a point 6 feet down the boom towards the stakes have been cut. the cab. (iv) When steel straps without stakes (iv) Standard signals for the oper- are used, the steel straps shall be cut ation of cranes shall be established for from a safe area to prevent employees all movements of the crane, in accord- from being struck by the falling logs. ance with American National Stand- (v) Flatcars and all other cars shall ards B30.2—1943 (reaffirmed 1968) and be chocked during unloading. Where B30.2.0—1967. equipment is not provided with hand (v) Only one member of the crew brakes, rail clamping chocks shall be shall be authorized to give signals to used. the crane operator. 703 VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:21 Aug 19, 2011 Jkt 223113 PO 00000 Frm 00713 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8002 Q:\29\29V5.TXT ofr150 PsN: PC150 § 1910.261 29 CFR Ch. XVII (7–1–11 Edition) (vi) All cranes shall be equipped with (ii) Where conveyors cross passage- a suitable warning device such as a ways or roadways, a horizontal plat- horn or whistle. form shall be provided under the con- (vii) A sheave guard shall be provided veyor extending out from the sides of beneath the head sheave of the boom. the conveyor a distance equal to 1.5 (9) Traffic warning signs or signals. (i) times the length of the wood handled. A flagman shall direct the movement The platform shall extend the width of of cranes or locomotives being moved the road plus 2 feet on each side, and across railroad tracks or roads, and at shall be kept free of wood and rubbish. any points where the vision of the op- The edges of the platform shall be pro- erator is restricted.