Power press brakes.
Text version Home Index Search Standards Interpretation and Compliance Letters Power press brakes. This in response to your request for information regarding power press brakes. Power press brakes are required to be guarded under the regulations of 29 CFR 1910.212, copy enclosed. The employer is obliged to provide appropriate safeguarding at least to the extent recommended by the ANSI B11.3 -1973 standard. Where such safeguarding is not possible, then the applicability of the press brake to the manufacturing process is considered erroneous and a misapplication of the machine.