This Standard provides performance and safety requirements for hatchets (that are intended specifically for use in driving unhardened nails or striking wood products or both; cutting, notching, and shaping wood products or wall board products, or both; cutting, spacing, and aligning soft roofing products, and pulling unhardened nails when the tool is provided with a nail slot) and axes (that are intended primarily for use in felling, trimming, and pruning trees; splitting and cutting wood; notching and shaping logs and timbers; driving wooden or plastic stakes; pulling unhardened nails when the tool is provided with a nail slot; or digging when the particular tool is provided with a digging blade).