I think the new tables are awful. The versions in the 1st and 2nd drafts weren't bad. They were similar to this:
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadis ... &p_id=9873under Table 1.
Then something happened. We have a definition of "normal operation" in 130.2(A)(2) for instance but then it is never used in the tables.
OSHA gives about a dozen different task categories and so did the original drafts of 70E-2015. But the final version includes over 2 dozen entries many of which are very confusing in terms of what they are intended to cover.