R 408.6204 Definitions; H to O.

Rule 204. As used in this part: (a) "Hazardous substances" means a contaminant, substance, or mixture of substances which is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, a strong sensitizer, or flammable or which generates pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means, if the substance or mixture of substances is capable of causing substantial personal injury, impairment, or substantial illness through absorption, inhalation, or personal contact. The signal word to designate the degree of hazard is "DANGER" as prescribed in R 408.11612 of the Michigan Administrative Code. (b) "Hoist" means a power-driven apparatus for raising or lowering a load by the application of a pulling force that does not include a car or platform running in guides. (c) "Low-lift platform truck" means a self-loading truck equipped with a load platform intended primarily for transporting, but not the tiering of, loaded skid platforms. (d) "Manlift" means a device intended for the conveyance of persons which consists of platforms or brackets mounted on or attached to an endless belt, cable, chain, or similar method of suspension, which operates in a substantially vertical direction, and which is supported by and driven through pulleys, sheaves, or sprockets at the top or bottom. (e) "Minor" means a person under 18 years of age, but does not include any of the following: (i) An individual 16 years of age or older who has completed the requirements for graduation from high school. (ii) An individual 16 years of age or older who has successfully passed the general educational development test. (iii) An emancipated individual as defined by section 4 of 1968 PA 293, as amended, MCL 722.4. (f) "Motorized hand truck" means a truck designed for the transportation of, but not the tiering of, materials that are to be controlled by a walking operator. (g) "Motor vehicle" means any automobile, truck, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer, motorcycle, or similar vehicle propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designed for use as a means of transportation, but does not include any vehicle operated exclusively on rails. (h) "Occupations in connection with logging" means all work performed in connection with any of the following: (i) The felling of timber. (ii) The bucking or converting of timber into any of the following: (A) Logs. (B) Poles. (C) Piles. (D) Ties. (E) Bolts. (F) Pulpwood. (G) Chemical wood. (H) Excelsior wood. (I) Cordwood. (J) Fence posts. (K) Similar products. (iii) The collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting, and unloading of the products specified in paragraph (ii) of this subdivision in connection with logging. (iv) The constructing, repairing, and maintaining of roads, railroads, flumes, or camps used in connection with logging. (v) The moving, installing, rigging, and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging. (i) "Occupations in or about slaughtering and meat-packing establishments, rendering plants, or wholesale, retail, or service establishments" means all work performed in or about such establishments in connection with any of the following: (i) Work on the killing floor, in curing cellars, and in hide cellars. (ii) Work involving the recovery of lard and oils. (iii) Work involving the tankage or rendering of any of the following: (A) Dead animals. (B) Animal offal. (C) Animal fats. (D) Scrap meats. (E) Blood and bones into stock feeds. (F) Tallow. (G) Inedible greases. (H) Fertilizer ingredients. (I) Similar products. (iv) Work involving the operation or feeding of all power-driven meat-processing machines. (v) Work involving any boning operations. (vi) Work involving the hand-lifting or hand-carrying of any carcass or half carcass of beef, pork, or horse or any quarter carcass of beef or horse. (vii) Work involving the pushing or dropping of any suspended carcass, half carcass, or quarter carcass. (j) "Occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle, or cooperage stock mill" means all work performed in or about any such mill in connection with any of the following: (i) Storing of logs and bolts. (ii) Converting logs or bolts into sawn lumber, laths, shingles, or cooperage stock. (iii) Storing, drying, and shipping lumber, laths, shingles, cooperage stock, or other products of such mills. (iv) Other work performed in connection with the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill. (k) "Operations in and around a mine or quarry" means all work performed at any of the following locations: (i) Underground in mines or quarries. (ii) On the surface at underground mines and underground operations. (iii) At or about placer mining operations. (iv) At or about bore-hole mining operations. (v) At or about dredging operations for clay, sand, or gravel. (vi) In or about all metal mills, washer plants, or grinding mills which reduce the bulk of the extracted minerals. (vii) At or about any other crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing, or cleaning operations performed upon the extracted minerals, except where such operations are performed as a part of a manufacturing process. (l) "Outside helper" means any individual, other than the driver, whose work includes riding on a motor vehicle outside the cab.