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Subchapter 7. General Industry Safety Orders
Group 4. General Mobile Equipment and Auxiliaries
Article 25. Industrial Trucks, Tractors, Haulage Vehicles, and Earthmoving Equipment
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§3665. Wheel Guards.

Shop transfer cars, equipment carriages, stock pickers, and similar equipment operating on rails or drawn by chains or cables shall be equipped with wheel guards or bumpers constructed and installed for the purpose of preventing a person's feet being crushed under the wheels. When the body or bed of trucks, carriages, or cars of this type extends over the wheels to the sides and both ends such a distance as will prevent a person's feet being crushed, said equipment shall be considered to be in compliance with this Order.

NOTE: This Order does not apply to cars used in trains.

NOTE: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.

HISTORY

1. Renumbering from Section 3663 and renumbering of former Section 3665 to Section 3338, filed 7-26-78; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 78, No. 30). For history of former section see Register 75, No. 7.

2. New NOTE filed 4-30-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 18).

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