This STD provides clarification for 29 CFR 1910.218 - Forging machines; clarification of enforcement. Old STD number: STD 1-12.6 - Forging Machines. Employees working with machines used in the forming of hot metal including hot trimming Presses, forging hammers, hot forging presses, upsetters, hot bending and hot metal presses, etc., use tongs of a sufficient length to avoid heat as well as the ram. Therefore the standards contained in 29 CFR 1910.218 shall be applicable. 

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