California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 7 - General Industry Safety Orders › Group 8 - Points of Operation and Other Hazardous Parts of Machinery › Article 59 - Woodworking Machines and Equipment › Section 4297 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Arbor. The rotating spindle or shaft used for mounting
						  and transmitting torque to cutting, grinding, or sanding tools and other
						  devices such as lathe chucks.
Band Knife. A power saw with a blade consisting of a
						  non-toothed metal band running around the circumference of two or more
						  wheels.
Band Saw. A power saw with a blade consisting of a
						  toothed metal band running around the circumference of two or more
						  wheels.
Belt Sander. A powered sander designed to remove
						  surface material with a seamless belt of an abrasive medium mounted on a pair
						  of drums or pulleys.
Boring and Mortising Machine. A machine that uses
						  boring bits or mortising chains to cut cavities in the material being worked
						  for mortise and tenon joints, mortised openings for door hardware, etc.
Box Shook Cut-Off Saw. A powered circular crosscut saw
						  generally used for cutting box shook, which are pre-cut sets of parts for
						  assembling wooden boxes used in fields, orchards and packing houses, etc.
						  Unlike a table saw, the wood material is passed through the circular saw blade
						  on a sliding cradle or carriage.
Brush and Slash Chipper. Powered equipment used to
						  reduce tree debris to wood chips.
Circular Knife. A power saw with a non-toothed smooth
						  circular blade or a circular blade with wavy serrations.
Comb (Featherboard). A work-guiding and hold down
						  device with spring-like fingers cut at an angle that flex in the direction of
						  the stock travel. The device prevents the stock from being pushed back at the
						  operator and also keeps the stock aligned against the table saw fence as it
						  passes through the saw blade.
Cordwood Saw. A circular saw powered by a power takeoff
						  or other drive mechanism on a tractor or other farm vehicle/equipment.
Crosscutting. A sawing operation through the thickness
						  of the workpiece made across the grain in natural wood or across the shorter
						  dimension on a rectangular workpiece of reconstituted wood.
Crosscut Saw. A saw with a blade designed for cutting
						  across the wood grain of natural wood, or across the shorter dimension on a
						  rectangular piece of reconstituted wood.
Dado. A straight sided non-through slot, perpendicular
						  to the face of the workpiece.
Disc Sander. A powered sander with the abrasive
						  material mounted to a round head which performs in an orbital motion parallel
						  to the work surface.
Drum Sander. A powered sander with the abrasive
						  material mounted directly to the circumference of a revolving cylinder.
Elbow Sander. A disc sander mounted on an articulating
						  arm mounted to the wall or machine frame.
Hog Mill. A powered chipper used for reducing lumber
						  mill waste into wood chips.
Jointer. A machine used for creating flat surfaces and
						  straight edges on board lumber.
Kerf. The slot made by a saw blade as it saws through a
						  workpiece.
Mandrel. See Arbor.
Miter Saw. Consists of a table top and fence which
						  support the position of the workpiece and a powered circular saw mounted on a
						  carriage with a pivoting arm that plunges into the workpiece or has a carriage
						  that allows for plunging and sliding over the workpiece. The saw unit can be
						  adjusted to make a miter cut. The saw unit may also be able to make a bevel or
						  a compound cut.
Planer. A woodworking machine with a table and a cutter
						  head/feed roller assembly mounted over the work support table and is used for
						  removing surface material.
Planing, Molding, Sticking and Matching Machine. A
						  specialized machine equipped with revolving cutting heads used for planing
						  and/or cutting irregular contours on straight strips of wood.
Push Block. A non-metallic device, most commonly
						  designed as a short block of wood with one or more handles and a flat bottom
						  surface either with a heel or friction material on it, which is used for
						  pushing stock over revolving cutters.
Push stick. A narrow strip of wood or other soft
						  material with a notch cut into one end which is used to push pieces of material
						  through woodworking machines.
Rabbet. An operation making a two-side notch in the
						  side or face of a workpiece.
Ripping. A sawing operation made through the thickness
						  of the workpiece with the grain of natural wood, along the long dimension of a
						  rectangular workpiece, and usually parallel to that edge on reconstituted wood
						  products.
Ripsaw. A saw with a blade designed for cutting wood in
						  the direction of the grain, where the saw kerf tends to close on the blade
						  after the blade has passed through the wood.
Shaper. A stationary woodworking machine with a cutter
						  head mounted on a spindle protruding vertically from the table. The workpiece
						  is supported by a fence and stationary table or moving table to control the
						  horizontal depth of the cut. A guide, fixture or template is used to control
						  the operation.
Spreader. A flat metal device slightly narrower than
						  the saw kerf designed to prevent the saw blade kerf in the workpiece from
						  closing on the sides of the blade during a sawing operation.
Swing Cut-Off Saw. A powered circular saw mounted on a
						  swing arm above the table.
Table Saw. A machine designed to use a circular saw
						  blade mounted on an arbor below the work support means which can be stationary
						  or moving or a combination of both. A guiding means is used for all operations
						  when manually feeding the stock. The arbor or its support means can be fixed,
						  or be capable of being tilted at an angle to the work support means of less
						  than 90 degrees to each other. See Figure A.
Tenoning Machine. A woodworking machine with circular
						  saw blades or cutting heads used to cut away part of the end of a workpiece,
						  leaving a rectangular tab or tenon which can be inserted into a rectangular
						  mortise hole in another piece of material to create a mortise-and- tenon
						  joint.
Wobble Saw. A circular saw used to cut dadoes with a
						  single blade attached to the saw arbor with a split hub, so that the blade is
						  mounted at an angle to the arbor shaft and wobbles while it rotates through the
						  stock.
Wood Turning Lathe. A powered machine generally used
						  for creating cylindrical products such as furniture legs. The stock spins
						  between two arbor ends and is shaped either by fixed cutting tools or hand-held
						  chisels or gouges.
1. New
						  section filed 10-25-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 74, No.
						  43).
2. Amendment and renumbering of Section
						  4299 to Section
						  4297 filed 4-27-79; effective
						  thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 17).
3. Amendment filed
						  8-15-86; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 86, No.
						  41).
4. Amendment and new Figure A filed 6-30-2008; operative
						  7-30-2008 (Register 2008, No. 27).
5. Amendment filed 10-2-2012;
						  operative 11-1-2012 (Register 2012, No. 40).
6. Amendment of
						  definitions of "Band Knife" and "Band Saw" filed 1-7-2014; operative 4-1-2014
						  (Register 2014, No. 2).
Note: Authority cited: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code. Reference: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code.