30 CFR § 57.14210 - Movement of dippers, buckets, loading booms, or suspended loads.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t30/s57.14210"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "30 CFR § 57.14210 - Movement of dippers, buckets, loading booms, or suspended loads."
title_number: 30
title_name: "Mineral Resources"
section_number: "57.14210"
section_name: "Movement of dippers, buckets, loading booms, or suspended loads."
chapter_name: "MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
subchapter_number: "K"
subchapter_name: "METAL AND NONMETAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH"
part_number: "57"
part_name: "SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS—UNDERGROUND METAL AND NONMETAL MINES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "30 U.S.C. 811."
regulatory_source: "50 FR 4082, Jan. 29, 1985, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "57"
---


# 57.14210 Movement of dippers, buckets, loading booms, or suspended loads.

(a) Dippers, buckets, loading booms, or suspended loads shall not be swung over the operators' stations of self-propelled mobile equipment until the equipment operator is out of the operator's station and in a safe location.

(b) This section does not apply when the equipment is specifically designed to protect the equipment operator from falling objects.