---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 75.1722"
title: "30"
number: "75.1722"
heading: "Mechanical equipment guards."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/75.1722"
---

# §75.1722. Mechanical equipment guards.

- (a) Gears; sprockets; chains; drive, head, tail, and takeup pulleys; flywheels; couplings, shafts; sawblades; fan inlets; and similar exposed moving machine parts which may be contacted by persons, and which may cause injury to persons shall be guarded.
- (b) Guards at conveyor-drive, conveyor-head, and conveyor-tail pulleys shall extend a distance sufficient to prevent a person from reaching behind the guard and becoming caught between the belt and the pulley.
- (c) Except when testing the machinery, guards shall be securely in place while machinery is being operated.

## Notes

### Amendments

[38 FR 4976, Feb. 23, 1973]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811, 813(h), 957.

### Source

Source: 35 FR 17890, Nov. 20, 1970, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[38 FR 4976, Feb. 23, 1973]