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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 106 - Drinking Water; Violation of Statute; Coverage of Term ''industrial Establishments''

Section 106. All industrial establishments and every person engaged in carrying on a construction project shall provide fresh and pure drinking water to which their employees shall have access during working hours. Any person owning, in whole or in part, managing, controlling or superintending any industrial establishment or construction project in which this section is violated shall, on the complaint of the local board of health, the selectmen of a town or an inspector, be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars. For the purposes of this section the term ''industrial establishments'' shall be deemed to include public garages and premises used by express, trucking and transportation companies where persons are employed.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 107 - Water for Humidifying Purposes; Violation of Statute

Section 107. The water used for humidifying purposes by any person operating a factory or workshop shall be of such a degree of purity as not to give rise to any impure or foul odors, and shall be so used as not to be injurious to the health of persons employed in such factories or workshops. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one thousand dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 108 - Thermometers for Humidity and Temperature; Regulations; Place; Reading; Record

Section 108. In every weaving and spinning department in a textile factory wherein water is introduced for humidifying purposes there shall be provided, maintained and kept in correct working order, for the purpose of recording and regulating the humidity of the atmosphere and the temperature, at least one set of standardized wet and dry bulb thermometers, and, if required by an inspector, two sets of such thermometers, and the following regulations shall be observed in their use: (a) The thermometers shall be placed as directed or sanctioned by an inspector, and be plainly visible to the workers. (b) The occupier or manager or person for the time being in charge of the weaving or spinning department shall read the thermometers thrice in the day, namely, between seven and eight o'clock in the forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon and between three and four o'clock, except in rooms lighted by gas, and then between four and five o'clock, in the afternoon of every day when persons are employed in any weaving or spinning department, and he shall record the readings of each thermometer in such department at each of the said times upon a form provided therefor, which, together with the regulations relating thereto, shall be furnished by the department of labor and workforce development. The records of the readings shall not be destroyed until the inspector in whose district the factory is situated has examined them and given his consent to their destruction.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 109 - Nonapplicability of Statute Relating to Thermometers; Hygrometers; Psychrometers; Records

Section 109. The preceding section shall not apply to textile factories equipped with such a number and type of standardized self-registering hygrometers, or psychrometers, or such a hygrometric system as the department approves, or using the sling hygrometer frequently to determine the actual moisture and temperature of the weaving or spinning department; provided, that the manner of using all such instruments or such system is approved by the industrial health inspector in whose district the factory is situated, and that the records of the readings from said instruments or system are not destroyed without the knowledge and consent of such inspector.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 111 - Sources of Water for Humidifying Purposes; Clean Air Ducts

Section 111. Water used for humidifying purposes in a textile factory shall be taken either from a public supply of drinking water, or from some other source of pure water, or from a supply of water which, although in the opinion of the attorney general not suitable for drinking purposes, is sufficiently free from impurities to be not dangerous to the health of employees when used for humidifying purposes; and all ducts for the introduction or distribution of humidified air shall be kept clean.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 112 - Failure to Comply With Secs. 108 to 111; Penalty

Section 112. Whoever fails to comply with any provision of sections one hundred and eight to one hundred and eleven, inclusive, after being requested so to do by an inspector, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 113 - Light, Ventilation, Cleanliness, Sanitation and Heat in Establishments

Section 113. Every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishment, railroad freight house, railway express terminal, public garages and premises used by express, trucking and transportation companies and any other building in which a person is employed, other than a building under construction, shall be well lighted, well ventilated and kept free from unsanitary conditions, and work rooms therein in actual use shall be properly heated during the period from October fifteenth to May fifteenth, according to reasonable rules and regulations adopted by the attorney general establishing minimum requirements with reference thereto; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to such rooms which are under the supervision of the department of public health and are subject to the provisions of section seventy-three A of chapter ninety-four. Upon determination by the attorney general that any work room in actual use is not properly heated according to rules and regulations adopted by the attorney general, the attorney general may seek a cease and desist order in the superior court in the county where the work room is located.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 114 - Investigations and Suggestions Relative to Eyes and Vision

Section 114. The industrial health inspectors shall, when obtaining information concerning the proper lighting of industrial establishments, make such investigation concerning the eye and vision in their relation to occupational diseases, including injuries to the eyes of employees and to the pathological effects produced or promoted by the circumstances under which the various occupations are carried on, as in the opinion of the attorney general is practicable, and it shall from time to time issue such printed matter containing suggestions to employers and employees for the protection of the eyes of the employees as it may deem advisable.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 115 - Devices and Means to Prevent Injury to Eyes; Order; Compliance; Violation of Statute

Section 115. If it appears to an inspector that in any industrial establishment, from the nature of the work or the machinery used in connection therewith, or from other circumstances, there is danger of injury to the eyes of employees engaged in such work, and that the danger of injury may be decreased or prevented by any mechanical device or other practicable means, he shall, if the attorney general so directs, order in writing that such device or other means shall be provided therein; and the proprietors and managers of the industrial establishment shall comply with the order. Violations of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for each week during which the violation continues, but a criminal prosecution for such violation shall not be begun unless a person has for four weeks after the receipt of a written order from an inspector neglected to comply therewith.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 116 - Investigations as to Light; Notice to Change; Failure to Comply With Order

Section 116. Upon the request of any inspector of the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure or upon the request of any five employees in a factory or workshop, the office of the attorney general shall investigate and ascertain whether or not such factory or workshop is adequately lighted. If the office of the attorney general is of opinion, after such investigation, that the factory or workshop is not properly lighted, it shall notify the owner or person in charge, and shall specify what changes should be made in order to light it properly, and the owner or lessee thereof shall make the changes so specified as soon as it can be done with reasonable diligence. If such owner or lessee fails to comply with any such order he shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, provided such failure is not the result of causes beyond his control.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 117 - Ventilation

Section 117. Every establishment in which one or more persons is employed shall be so ventilated that all gases, vapors, dust, fumes, or any impurity injurious to health, whether generated in the course of the work carried on therein or otherwise, shall, so far as practicable, be rendered harmless.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 118 - Means to Diminish Inhalation of Dust

Section 118. If, in any place of employment, any process is carried on by which dust is caused which may be inhaled to an injurious extent by the persons employed therein, and it appears to an inspector that such inhalation would be substantially diminished without unreasonable expense by the use of a fan or by other mechanical means, such fan or other mechanical means, if he so directs, shall be provided, maintained and used.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 119 - Hoods or Hoppers and Suction Pipes for Emery or Buffing Wheels or Belts

Section 119. Any person operating a factory or workshop where emery wheels or belts or buffing wheels or belts injurious to the health of employees are used shall provide such wheels and belts with a hood or hopper connected with suction pipes, and with fans or blowers, in accordance with the following section, which apparatus shall be so placed and operated as to protect any person using such wheel or belt from the particles or dust produced by its operation, and to convey the particles or dust either outside of the building or to some receptacle so placed as to receive and confine them.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 120 - Form and Place of Hoods or Hoppers; Size and Speed of Blowers; Approval by Attorney General

Section 120. Every such wheel shall be fitted with a hood or hopper of such form and so placed that the particles or dust produced by the operation of the wheel or of any belt connected therewith shall fall or will be thrown into such hood or hopper by centrifugal force; and the fans or blowers shall be of such size and shall be run at such speed as will produce a volume and velocity of air in the suction and discharge pipes sufficient to convey all particles or dust from the hood or hopper through the suction pipes and so outside of the building or to a receptacle as aforesaid. The hoods or hoppers shall be so constructed and the suction pipes and connections shall be suitable and efficacious and such as shall be approved by the attorney general.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 121 - Nonapplicability of Statutes Relating to Emery and Buffing Machinery

Section 121. The two preceding sections shall not apply to grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact, nor to solid emery wheels used in sawmills or in planing mills or in other woodworking establishments, nor to any emery wheel six inches or less in diameter used in establishments where the principal business is not emery wheel grinding.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 122 - Violation of Statutes Relating to Ventilation, Dust and Emery and Buffing Machinery

Section 122. Violations of sections one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and twenty-one, inclusive, shall be punished for the first offence by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by the fine aforesaid or by imprisonment in jail for not more than two months, or both. A criminal prosecution for the violation of section one hundred and seventeen or one hundred and eighteen shall not be begun unless an employer has for four weeks after the receipt of a written order from an inspector neglected to comply therewith.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 123 - Inspections Relative to Apparatus for Emery and Buffing Machinery; Complaint; Prosecution

Section 123. Inspectors, upon receipt of a notice signed by any person having knowledge of the facts that any factory or workshop subject to sections one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty is not provided with the apparatus prescribed thereby, shall visit and inspect such factory or workshop, and for that purpose may enter therein during working hours; and if they ascertain that the owner, proprietor or manager thereof has failed to comply with said sections, they shall make complaint to a court or trial justice having jurisdiction, and cause such owner, proprietor or manager to be prosecuted.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 124 - Communication Between Engineer's Room and Machinery Room

Section 124. In every manufacturing establishment where the machinery is operated by steam, communication shall be provided between each room where such machinery is placed and the room where the engineer is stationed by means of speaking tubes, electric bells or appliances to control the motive power, or such other means as shall be satisfactory to an inspector, if in his opinion such communication is necessary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 125 - Violation of Statute Relating to Communication

Section 125. An occupant or manager of a manufacturing establishment who violates the preceding section shall forfeit to the commonwealth not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. No prosecution for such violation shall be begun unless a person has for four weeks after the receipt of a written order from an inspector neglected to comply therewith.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 126 - Fastening Doors During Business Hours; Violation of Statute

Section 126. No inside or outside door of any building subject to the supervision of the attorney general which, under the provisions of the state building code, is required as a means of free egress or escape from fire, and no inside or outside door of any industrial establishment in which ten or more persons are employed which is marked ''exit'' or in any other manner designating the same as a means of egress or escape from fire shall, during business hours, be so locked, bolted or fastened that such door cannot be opened from the inside by the use of the ordinary door knob, or by pressure on the door or on a panic release device, so called. No inside or outside door of any other building, other than a dwelling house, wherein any person is employed, which door shall have been determined by the department of fire services, upon the written request of the attorney general, to be a means of such egress and escape shall, during business hours, be locked, bolted or fastened as aforesaid or obstructed in any manner which would not permit free egress. The owner, lessor or lessee, or any other person in charge, of a building or portion thereof any door of which shall be found locked, bolted or otherwise fastened or obstructed in any manner which would not permit free egress, contrary to any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than three thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 127 - Guards For, and Cleaning Of, Machinery; Disconnection and Removal of Safety Devices

Section 127. The belting, shafting, gearing, drums and all machinery having movable parts in all factories, workshops, mechanical and mercantile establishments, if so placed as to be dangerous to employees while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall be securely guarded so far as practicable. Guards, dogs or other safety devices installed on belting, shafting, gearing, drums and all machinery having movable parts shall not be disconnected or removed, except when such belting, shafting, gearing, drums and all machinery having movable parts has been shut down for repairs. No machinery except steam engines in a factory, workshop, mechanical or mercantile establishment shall be cleaned while running.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 128 - Traversing Carriage of a Self-Acting Mule Traveling Close to Fixed Structure

Section 128. The owner of a cotton factory erected after May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in which there is any traversing carriage of a self-acting mule installed, or of any cotton factory erected previously to such date in which thereafter such traversing carriage is installed, who permits such carriage to travel within twelve inches of any pillar, column, pier or fixed structure, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 129 - Safeguards for Hoistways, Hatchways and Well Holes; Closing Trapdoors

Section 129. The openings of hoistways, hatchways and well holes upon every floor of an industrial establishment shall be protected by sufficient trap doors or self-closing hatches, or by such other safeguards as an inspector directs; and any such openings shall be kept so protected or so safeguarded at all times, except when in actual use, by the occupant of the building having the use and control of the same, or by the owner of the building having such control.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 129a - Shoring Trenches for Local Governments; Graves Excepted

Section 129A. On any construction project carried on by any city, town, county or other subdivision of the commonwealth in which a trench is to be dug to a depth of five feet or more, except a trench for laying of water pipes dug to a depth of six and one-half feet which will be open less than forty-eight hours, such trench shall be shored and braced in conformity with the rules and regulations for the prevention of accidents in construction operations, as adopted and enforced by the attorney general. This section shall not apply to the digging of graves.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 129b - Stilts; Penalty for Requiring or Knowingly Permitting Use in Construction

Section 129B. Whoever, being engaged in construction work, requires or knowingly permits any person employed by him in such work to use certain devices, commonly called stilts, designed to be attached to the feet or legs of such employee for the purpose of elevating him to high placed or positioned work, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for the first offense, by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars for the second offense, and by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars for any subsequent offense.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 129c - Installation or Repair of Live Electric Wires or Electrical Equipment; Assistance; Safety Equipment; Penalty

Section 129C. Whoever being engaged in the business of transmitting electricity or installing or repairing live wires or electrical equipment knowingly permits a journeyman or first class lineman, while on a pole or structure, to work on live wires in excess of seven hundred and fifty volts to ground unless he is assisted on or at the base of each such pole or structure by a journeyman lineman, a fourth-year apprentice, a second class lineman or a lineman having a title commonly accepted as the equivalent of the foregoing shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars. Whoever being engaged in the business of transmitting or distributing electricity or installing or repairing live wires or electrical equipment knowingly permits any of its personnel to work on live wires, electrical equipment or any other energized conductor in excess of fifteen thousand volts phase-to-phase or eight thousand five hundred volts phase-to-ground directly with rubber gloves or in any manner other than with insulated hot line tools in which case the worker shall maintain as a minimum clearance from such wire, equipment or conductor a distance consistent with the minimum requirements of the occupational safety and health act, so-called, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Each violation of this section shall be a separate offense.
For the purpose of this section, a structure shall be deemed to include any type of aerial lift device, including a so-called bucket truck. This section shall not apply to work done by any person who is commonly called a troubleman, while making emergency repairs, locating electrical faults, clearing defective apparatus, or answering service calls.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 129d - Riding in Man-Basket Carried by Hoisting Machinery for Bungee Jumping or Other Approved Activity

Section 129D. No person shall be prohibited from riding in a division of occupational licensure approved man-basket, so-called, carried by any hoisting machinery for the purpose of bungee jumping or for any other division of occupational licensure approved activity.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 131 - Guards for Loom Shuttles; Violation of Statute

Section 131. Any person owning, managing or operating a factory where looms are used shall equip them with such guards or other devices as will prevent injury to employees from shuttles falling or being thrown from the looms. Such guards or devices shall be made of such material and be placed in such manner as shall be approved by the department. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for every week during which the violation continues.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 132 - Suction Shuttles; Shuttle or Thread Touching Lips; Violation of Statute

Section 132. No proprietor of a factory nor any officer or agent or other person shall require or permit the use of suction shuttles, or any form of shuttle in the use of which any part of the shuttle or any thread is put in the mouth or touched by the lips of the operator. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 133 - Water Closets, Toilets and Washing Facilities; Regulations; Definitions of ''industrial Establishments'' and ''railroad Establishments''

Section 133. In every industrial establishment and railroad establishment there shall be provided suitable, adequate and convenient water closets and washing facilities, separate for each sex and plainly so designated, of such number, in such location, and so constructed, lighted, ventilated, arranged and maintained as may be determined by such reasonable rules and regulations as the department may adopt. No person shall be allowed to use a closet or privy provided for the use of persons of the opposite sex. If any such establishment is so located that a connection with a sewer system is, in the opinion of the department, impossible or impracticable, it shall provide such suitable toilet and washing facilities as the department may require. For the purposes of this section the term ''industrial establishment'' shall be deemed to include public garages and premises used by express, trucking and transportation companies where persons are employed. For the purposes of this section the term ''railroad establishment'' shall be deemed to mean that part, division or branch of any railroad in which three or more persons are employed except where toilet and washing facilities are maintained for public use.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 134 - Necessary Changes; Action for Proportion of Expense

Section 134. The owner, lessee or occupant of every such establishment shall make the changes necessary to conform thereto. If such changes are made upon the order of an inspector by the occupant or lessee, he may, within thirty days after completion, bring an action against any other person having an interest in such premises, and may recover such proportion of the expense of making such changes as the court adjudges should justly and equitably be borne by the defendant.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 135 - Prosecutions; Necessity of Neglect to Make Changes; Notice; Liability of Corporate Officer

Section 135. A criminal prosecution shall not be begun against a person for a violation of any provision of sections one hundred and thirty-three or one hundred and thirty-four unless he has, after receiving notice from the attorney general of the changes necessary to comply with said sections, neglected to make such changes. A notice shall be sufficient under this section if given to one member of a firm, or to the clerk, cashier, secretary, agent or any other officer having charge of the business of a corporation, or to its attorney, or, in the case of a foreign corporation, to the officer or person having charge of any such industrial establishment or railroad establishment; and such officer or person shall be personally liable for the amount of any fine if a judgment against the corporation is unsatisfied.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 136 - Violation of Public Health Laws; Notice to Town Board of Health; Enforcement

Section 136. If it appears to an inspector that any act, neglect or fault in relation to any drain, water closet, earth closet, privy, ash pit, water supply, nuisance or other matter in any industrial establishment is punishable or remediable under any law relative to the preservation of the public health, but not under this chapter, he shall give written notice thereof to the board of health of the town where such establishment is situated, and such board of health shall thereupon inquire into the subject of the notice and enforce the laws relative thereto.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 137 - Foundry Toilet Rooms and Water Closets; Failure to Comply With Statute

Section 137. The proprietor of every foundry engaged in the casting of iron, brass, steel or other metal, and employing ten or more persons, shall establish and maintain, except in towns where it would be impracticable by reason of the absence of public or private sewerage or of any running water system, a toilet room of suitable size and condition for such persons to change their clothes therein, and provided with wash bowls, sinks or other suitable set appliances connected with running hot and cold water, and also a water closet connected with running water and separated from the said toilet room. The said water closet and toilet room shall be connected directly with the foundry building, properly heated, ventilated and protected, so far as may be reasonably practicable, from the dust of the foundry. Whoever fails to comply with this section after being requested so to do by an inspector shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 139 - Lockers and Clothes Receptacles of Employees; Violation of Statute

Section 139. In any mercantile or manufacturing establishment or hotel or railroad where the nature of the work renders it necessary for any or all employees, before beginning work, to make a substantially complete change of clothing, exclusive of underclothing, separate lockers, closets or other receptacles, each with a lock and key, shall be provided for the use of such employees. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 141 - Medical and Surgical Chests; Accommodations for Treatment of Injured or Ill Persons; Facilities for Heating Food; Violation of Statute

Section 141. Every person operating a factory, shop or mechanical establishment where machinery is used for any manufacturing or other purpose except for elevators, or for heating or hoisting apparatus, shall keep and maintain, free of expense to the employees, such medical or surgical chest, or both, as shall be required by the department, containing plasters, bandages, absorbent cotton, gauze, and all other necessary medicines, instruments and appliances for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises. Every such person employing one hundred or more persons shall, if so required by the department, provide accommodations satisfactory to it for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises, and also suitable and sanitary facilities for heating or warming food to be consumed by those employees of the factory, shop or mechanical establishment who so desire. Every person carrying on a mercantile establishment where twenty or more persons are employed shall in the manner aforesaid provide such medical and surgical chest as the department may require. Whoever violates any provision hereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars for every week during which such violation continues.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 141a - Lifting Heavy Objects in Textile Factories

Section 141A. No person or persons employed in a textile factory, whose principal employment is the tending or repairing of machinery, shall be required to lift by hand, as a regular part of his or their duties, any object or objects the combined weight of which totals more than three hundred and twenty-five pounds.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 142a - Marked Receptacles for Benzol, Carbon Tetrachloride or Other Substances Hazardous to Health

Section 142A. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person shall have for use in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or in any other place of employment, benzene represented by the chemical formula C/6H/6, in sections one hundred and forty-two B to one hundred and forty-two F, inclusive, called benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the opinion of the departments of labor and workforce development and of public health, acting jointly, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, in any receptacle other than part of a vehicle used exclusively for outdoor transportation, unless such receptacle is marked with the words ''Benzol'', ''Carbon Tetrachloride'' or ''Name of Substance'', together with such warning as the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health jointly by reasonable rules and regulations may require.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 142b - Marked Receptacles for Materials Containing Benzol, Carbon Tetrachloride or Other Substances Hazardous to Health

Section 142B. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person shall have for use in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or any other place of employment, any material containing benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the opinion of the department of labor and workforce development and the department of public health, acting jointly, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, in any receptacle other than part of a vehicle used exclusively for outdoor transportation, unless such receptacle is marked with one of the following combinations of words:— ''Contains benzol'', ''Contains carbon tetrachloride'' or ''Contains (name of substance)'', together with such warning as the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health jointly by reasonable rules and regulations may require.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 142c - Markings; Clear and Conspicuous; Size; Place

Section 142C. The words and any warning required by sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B shall be clear and conspicuous, and shall be of such size and so placed as the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health jointly by reasonable rules and regulations may require.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 142d - Receptacles Exempt From Marking Requirements

Section 142D. The director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health acting jointly may, by reasonable rules and regulations, exempt from the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B, under such restrictions as they may deem advisable, (a) closed receptacles which are in the possession of the manufacturer by whom the contents of such receptacles were made or compounded or of a common carrier, provided in each case said director and commissioner are satisfied that such contents are to be used only outside the commonwealth; (b) receptacles containing material used exclusively as motor fuel; (c) receptacles containing material which, as last compounded, contained a per cent by weight of benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which said director and commissioner determine to be not so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 142e - Reports Concerning Material Hazardous to Health

Section 142E. For the protection of persons exposed to possible injury by any material or substance which in the joint opinion of the departments of labor and workforce development and of public health, acting pursuant to sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health, acting jointly, may by reasonable rules and regulations require such reports as they may deem advisable covering the manufacture, sale, receipt, possession or use of any such material or substance.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 142f - Violation of Secs. 142a to 142c; Failure to Mark Receptacles; Removal or Defacement of Marks; Penalty

Section 142F. Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and forty-two A, one hundred and forty-two B or one hundred and forty-two C, or any rule or regulation made under section one hundred and forty-two A, one hundred and forty-two B, one hundred and forty-two C, one hundred and forty-two D and one hundred and forty-two E, and whoever, being charged with the duty of marking any receptacle containing benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the joint opinion of the departments of labor and workforce development and of public health, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, or any material in which benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the opinion of said departments, acting jointly, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, is contained, fails so to mark the same, and whoever wilfully removes or defaces any marking made in accordance with any of said provisions or rules and regulations shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 142g - Enforcement of Statutes and Regulations

Section 142G. The attorney general shall enforce the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A to one hundred and forty-two F, inclusive, and the rules and regulations made hereunder in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment or in any other place of employment in so far as the same relate to the health of employees, and the department of public health shall enforce the provisions of said sections and the rules and regulations made hereunder in so far as they apply to the keeping and storage for sale to the public in any mercantile establishment of any of the substances or materials referred to in said sections.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 143 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 143 to 144h

Section 143. The following words, as used in this section and in sections one hundred and forty-three A and one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:—
''Employer'', any person who, directly or indirectly, or through an employee or agent, furnishes to another person any materials or articles to be manufactured or worked upon in a home, and thereafter to be returned to himself or on his order, for use other than the personal use of himself or of a member of his family.
''Home'', any room, house, apartment or other premises, whichever is most extensive, used in whole or in part as a place of dwelling.
''Industrial homework'', any manufacture of or work upon materials or articles in a home for an employer, exclusive of domestic service.
The verb ''to manufacture'', as used in its different moods and tenses, includes to prepare, alter, repair or finish in whole or in part.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 143a - Protection From Undue Competition and of Health and Well-Being of Workers

Section 143A. Protection of factory industries from undue competition and protection of the health and well-being of the workers is a matter which concerns the general welfare of the public. Remedy for this evil has been sought through the enactment of laws to protect health and to raise living standards for workers engaged in industrial homework.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 144 - Unlawful Industrial Homework

Section 144. The manufacture of or work upon any of the following by industrial homework shall be unlawful, and no permit issued under section one hundred and forty-seven or certificate issued under section one hundred and forty-seven A shall be deemed to authorize such manufacture or work upon or the delivery of materials for such manufacture: tobacco; drugs and poisons; bandages and other sanitary goods; explosives, fireworks and articles of like character; outergarments and undergarments of men, women, boys, girls, children and infants, except hosiery and women's millinery; articles, the manufacture of or work upon which by industrial homework is determined by the commissioner, after investigation and hearing in the manner provided by sections one hundred and forty-five and one hundred and forty-six to be injurious to the health or welfare of the industrial homeworkers within the industry or to render unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards or the enforcement of labor standards established by law or regulation for workers in the industry.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 145 - Investigation of Industries; Order Declaring Industrial Homework Unlawful

Section 145. The attorney general may make or cause to be made an investigation of any industry which employs industrial homeworkers, in order to determine whether the wages and conditions of employment of industrial homeworkers in such industry are injurious to their health and welfare, or whether the wages and conditions of employment of such industrial homeworkers have the effect of rendering unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards or the enforcement of labor standards established by law or regulation for workers in the industry. If, on the basis of information in his possession, with or without an investigation as provided in this section, the attorney general shall find that industrial homework cannot be continued within a certain industry without injuring the health and welfare of the industrial homeworkers within such industry, or without rendering unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards or the enforcement of labor standards established by law or regulation for workers in such industry, the attorney general shall by order declare such industrial homework unlawful and require all employers in such industry to discontinue the furnishing within the commonwealth of material for industrial homework, and no permit issued under section one hundred and forty-seven shall be deemed thereafter to authorize the furnishing of materials for industrial homework prohibited by such order.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 146 - Hearing Preceding Order; Notice; Place; Effective Date of Order

Section 146. Before making such order the attorney general shall hold a public hearing or hearings at which an opportunity to be heard shall be afforded to any employer, or representative of employers, and any industrial homeworker, or representative of industrial homeworkers, and any other person or persons, having an interest in the subject matter of the hearing. At least thirty days before any such hearing is held public notice thereof shall be given in such manner as may be determined by the attorney general. Such hearing or hearings shall be held in such place or places as the attorney general shall deem most convenient to the employers and industrial homeworkers to be affected by such order. The attorney general shall determine the effective date of such order, which date shall be not less than ninety days after the date of its promulgation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 146a - Distribution of Materials and Articles; Necessity of Place of Employment in Commonwealth

Section 146A. The employer shall, wherever industrial homework is permitted, distribute directly to his homeworkers all material and articles of homework. No employer shall give out any material or articles for homework through any homework contractors or distributors. No person other than an employer shall distribute to anyone any materials or articles for industrial homework.
Industrial homework shall be performed only if the employer maintains a plant or factory in this commonwealth or maintains a place of employment in this commonwealth other than a home.