No person, firm, or corporation, or agent of a person, firm or corporation, shall require or permit any employee to perform any function in proximity to high-voltage overhead lines; to enter upon any land, building, or other premises and engage in any excavation, demolition, construction, repair or other operation; or to erect, install, operate, or store in or upon such premises any tools, machinery, equipment, materials, or structures, including house moving, well drilling, pile driving or hoisting equipment, unless and until danger from accidental contact with such high-voltage overhead lines has been effectively guarded against in the manner prescribed in this part.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-3-1002
Guarding against accidental contact by employee
Known as the Occupational Safety and Health Act
The act spans §§ 50-3-1001 to 50-3-920 (95 sections).
Acts 1955, ch. 289, § 2; T.C.A., §§ 53-2802, 68-21-102; Acts 2011, ch. 157, § 2; 2012, ch. 681, §§ 1, 4; T.C.A. § 68-103-102.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.