Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 09 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Subtitle 12 - DIVISION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Chapter 09.12.26 - Crane Safety › Section 09.12.26.02 - Scope

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. Except as
				provided in §C of this regulation, this chapter applies to power operated
				equipment, when used in construction and demolition, that can hoist, lower, and
				horizontally move a suspended load.
B. This chapter applies to all crane
				operators, signal persons, riggers, and crane operator trainees, and to the
				erection, operation, and dismantling of cranes used in construction and
				demolition.
C. This chapter does
				not apply to the following equipment:
(1)
				Machinery included in §A of this regulation while it has been converted or
				adapted for a non-hoisting/lifting use, and when used with chains, slings, or
				other rigging to lift suspended loads.Such conversions/adaptations include, but
				are not limited to, power shovels, excavators, and concrete pumps;
(2) Automotive wreckers and tow trucks when
				used to clear wrecks and haul vehicles;
(3) Digger derricks:
(a) Used for auguring holes for poles
				carrying electric and telecommunication lines, placing and removing the poles,
				and for handling associated materials to be installed on or removed from the
				poles;
(b) Used in electric power
				generation, transmission, and distribution work subject to 29 CFR Part 1926,
				Subpart V, which shall comply with
				29 CFR §
												1926.950; and
(c) Used in construction work for
				telecommunication service, as defined at
				29 CFR §
												1910.268(s)(40), which shall
				comply with 29 CFR §
												1910.268;
(4) Machinery originally designed as
				vehicle-mounted aerial devices such as the type used for lifting personnel and
				self-propelled elevating work platforms;
(5) Powered industrial trucks, such as
				forklifts, except when configured to hoist and lower by means of a winch or
				hook and horizontally move a suspended load;
(6) Mechanic's truck with a hoisting device
				when used in activities related to equipment maintenance and repair;
(7) Machinery that hoists by using a
				come-along or chainfall;
(8)
				Telescopic/hydraulic gantry systems;
(9) Stacker cranes;
(10) Dedicated drilling rigs;
(11) Gin poles when used for the erection of
				communication towers;
(12) Tree
				trimming and tree removal work; and
(13) Except as provided in §D of this
				regulation, articulating/knuckle-boom truck cranes when:
(a) Delivering material to a construction
				site when used to transfer materials from the truck crane to the ground,
				without arranging the materials in a particular sequence for hoisting;
				and
(b) Delivering material to a
				construction site when the crane is used to transfer building supply sheet
				goods, including sheets of sheetrock, plywood, and roofing shingles, or
				building supply packaged materials, including bags of cement, packages of
				roofing shingles, and rolls of roofing felt, from the truck crane onto a
				structure using a fork/cradle at the end of the boom, but only when the truck
				crane is equipped with a properly functioning automatic overload prevention
				device.