LAC 40:VII.511. Power Driven Woodworking Machine Occupations

A. Definitions Off-Bearing―removal of material or refuse directly from a saw table or from the point of operation. Power-Driven Woodworking Machines―all fixed or portable machines or tools driven by mechanical or electrical power, and are used or designed for cutting, shaping, forming, nailing, stapling, wire-stitching, fastening, or otherwise assembling, pressing, or printing wood veneer, or other products. B. Prohibited Occupations. The following occupations involved in operation of power-driven woodworking machines are prohibited: 1. supervising or controlling operation of any woodworking machines; 2. feeding materials into any woodworking machine; 3. helping to feed materials into any woodworking machine; 4. setting up and adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning power-driven woodworking machines; 5. any off-bearing occupations such as removing materials from circular saws and guillotine-action veneer clippers. C. Operations not considered to be off-bearing are: 1. removal of material or refuse from a circular saw or guillotine-action veneer clipper when such material or refuse has been conveyed away from the saw table or point of operation by a gravity chute or by some mechanical means, such as a moving belt or expulsion device; 2. carrying, moving, or transporting materials from one machine to another, or from one part of the plant to another; 3. piling, stacking or arranging materials to be fed into a machine by another person; and 4. sorting, tying, bundling or loading materials into conveyances. D. Exemptions. Registered apprentices and registered student-learners are exempt from prohibitions which apply to power-driven woodworking machine occupations.