scope:

Equipment Covered: This standard relates to the following types of vehicle-mounted aerial devices:

(1) Extensible boom aerial device

(2) Aerial ladder

(3) Articulating boom aerial device

(4) Vertical tower

(5) A combination of any of the above

Equipment Not Covered: The scope of this standard does not include any matter relating to the following equipment:

(1) Non-self-propelled vertically elevating work platforms (such as covered in American National Standard for Elevating Work Platforms, ANSI A92.3-1973)

(2) Self-propelled boom-supported elevating work platforms

(3) Self-propelled vertically adjustable work platforms (such as covered in American National Standard for Self-Propelled Elevating Work Platforms, ANSI A92.6-1979)

(4) Firefighting equipment (such as covered in American National Standard Practice for the Maintenance, Care, Testing, and Use of Fire Department Aerial Ladders and Elevating Platforms, ANSI/NFPA 1904-1975)

(5) Vertical towers with rotating platforms for use on level ground

(6) Elevating and rotating aerial devices in combination with vehicles other than commercial chassis