Scaffolding across the state plans

Scaffolding is adopted federal text in Arizona at the February 24, 2021 cut-off, with the ten-foot fall protection trigger and the competent-person duties intact. Arizona did not amend Subpart L. The structural point to carry is the one the rule states itself: the incorporation does not include amendments or editions published after that date, so a federal change announced since then is not in force here until the Industrial Commission moves the date by rulemaking.

Scaffolding is adopted federal text in Iowa through the construction chapter, which now sits at 481—Chapter 211 rather than 875—Chapter 26. The ten-foot fall-protection trigger, the competent-person duties and the Subpart L appendices are the federal ones. The Iowa chapter carries a rescission date of January 15, 2030 under Iowa Code section 17A.7, which is a scheduled review deadline rather than an expiry of the underlying duties.

Scaffolding applies as federal text. The point worth carrying about Indiana is what its rule set does not contain: the construction industry article of the administrative code was repealed, the safety education and training article is repealed section by section, and the health and safety article and the mines and mining article are repealed in full. What survives is Article 2 on building and factory inspection, Article 9 on procedure and recordkeeping, and the youth employment and wages articles. A search for an Indiana scaffolding rule returns nothing because there is nothing to return.

Scaffolding is adopted as federal text: 803 KAR 2:411 requires the construction industry to comply with 29 CFR 1926 Subpart L, first effective December 15, 1989 and most recently amended October 4, 2022. Kentucky did not touch the ten-foot fall-protection trigger or the competent-person duties. The one construction subpart Kentucky did rewrite is fall protection, at 803 KAR 2:412, worth remembering when scaffold work and residential framing meet on the same site.

Scaffolding is one of the standards Minnesota left alone: 1926.451 applies as adopted, with the ten-foot fall-protection trigger and the competent-person duties intact, and there is no Minnesota supplement in chapter 5207 for scaffolds themselves. The neighboring equipment is where Minnesota does write its own rule: Minn. R. 5207.1100 covers boom-supported elevating work platforms and platforms carried by rough-terrain forklifts, requiring fall arrest to 1926.502(d) or a positioning device system to 1926.502(e). Contractors in Minnesota should also note the statutory layer that applies regardless of standard: employers in the listed construction classifications must maintain a written AWAIR program under Minn. Stat. 182.653, subd. 8, reviewed and documented at least annually.

Scaffolding applies in North Carolina as incorporated federal text with the January 1, 2025 cut-off, and the state made no scaffold-specific amendment. The rule to carry across from the state's own additions is the snaphook requirement at .0204: scaffold erectors tying off during erection and dismantling are using exactly the connectors that rule governs. The state's power transmission amendment, .0206, was repealed on March 1, 2015, so line work follows the incorporated federal Subpart V.

Scaffolding is incorporated federal text in New Mexico with the ten-foot fall protection trigger and the competent-person duties intact. The construction part omits Subparts A and B of Part 1926 and amends only hazard communication, so Subpart L arrives whole. Worth knowing for the paperwork: the construction part expressly supersedes the older EIB/OHSR 300 construction standards, and any reference to EIB/OHSR 300 in another rule reads as a reference to 11.5.3 NMAC.

Scaffolding applies as federal text in South Carolina. Subpart L is not among the state's six construction modifications, so the ten-foot fall protection trigger and the competent-person duties are the federal ones, though note that on excavation work the competent person definition is the state's revised version, not the federal one. The deletions at the front of Part 1926 are the practical difference: 1926.30, 1926.31 and 1926.32(a) are gone, and Subparts A and B do not apply.

Scaffolding is adopted federal text in Tennessee, with the ten-foot fall-protection trigger and the competent-person duties intact. Tennessee's construction chapter is short by design (a definition of construction work, an adoption rule, and a list of four excluded federal sections) so the substantive scaffolding requirements are the ones in Subpart L. The state's own rulemaking energy went into the Hazardous Chemical Right to Know chapter, which reaches any coating, solvent or sealant a scaffold crew brings onto a site.

Scaffolding is federal-identical in Virginia under VR 425-02-119, effective March 1, 1994, with 1926.451 and 1926.453 amended April 15, 2011 and one paragraph, 1926.451(b)(2)(i), stayed effective April 8, 1997. The ten-foot fall-protection trigger and the competent-person duties are the federal ones. Where scaffolding meets steel erection, remember which rule wins: 16VAC25-145 displaces the federal fall-protection provisions for steel erection work, and it prohibits controlled decking zones that 1926.760(c) would allow.

Scaffolding is adopted federal text in Vermont, with the ten-foot fall protection trigger and the competent-person duties intact, and no Vermont amendment. VOSHA does publish separate adopted documents for the construction silica standard and for cranes and derricks in construction, so scaffold work that involves cutting, grinding or lifting should be checked against those documents rather than assumed to sit under Subpart L alone.

Washington takes what 1926.451 does in one section and splits it across two chapters: 296-874 governs the scaffold itself (planking, access, inspection, power-line clearance) for every industry at once, where federal law separates Subpart D of Part 1910 from Subpart L of Part 1926. Fall protection while on the scaffold moved to the unified chapter at 296-880-30030. The trigger there is ten feet, exactly as in 1926.451(g)(1), and the erection-and-dismantling feasibility determination by a competent person is the same test. This is the standard where Washington rewrote the numbering and left the height alone.

“29 C.F.R. §§ 1926.450 - 1926.454 (2016) as it was in effect on June 19, 2018.”

Scaffolding is Chapter 12, holding the whole of Subpart L at the 2016 edition as in effect June 19, 2018. The ten-foot fall protection trigger, the competent-person duties and the training requirements are the federal ones as of that date, and Wyoming added nothing of its own. Where scaffold work meets fall protection, note that Chapter 13 is pinned to the same date, but the personal protective equipment chapter beside them is not, sitting at January 30, 2025.