The requirements of this standard apply to any power-driven machine designed for bending pipe, tube, and shapes by means of bending dies, clamp dies, pressure dies, mandrels, wiper dies, vertical bending punches, radius dies, wing dies, and associated tooling.

Excluded from the requirements for this standard are: Bench presses; hydro forming; forging presses; four-slide machines; hydraulic presses; mechanical presses; power press brakes; roll benders; roll formers; and assembly machines.