PROHIBITED EMPLOYMENTS OF MINORS UNDER 16 YEARS OLD

In addition to the restrictions in part 5200.0910 , no minor under the age of 16 may be employed: A. in or about airport landing strips and taxi or maintenance aprons; B. except as stated in part 5200.0910 , item K, subitem (3), as a driver of a motor vehicle or an outside helper thereon; C. as loaders or launchers for skeet or trap shooting; D. to lift or carry, or otherwise personally care for, patients in hospitals or nursing homes; E. to do welding of any kind; F. to operate or assist in the operation of machinery, including but not limited to: (1) farm type tractors and other self-propelled vehicles, except that those minors trained under either the 4-H Federal Extension Service or the U.S. Office of Education Vocational Agriculture Training programs may work on equipment permitted by their certificate of training; (2) laundry, rug cleaning, or dry cleaning equipment; (3) sidewalk type snow blowers and other power-driven lawn and garden equipment; (4) drill presses, milling machines, grinders, lathes, and such portable power-driven machinery as drills, sanders, and polishing and scrubbing equipment for floor maintenance; (5) meat slicers; (6) textile-making machinery; and (7) bakery machinery; G. in oiling, cleaning, or maintaining any power-driven machinery, either portable or stationary, while in motion or at rest; H. in work involving the use of pits, racks, or lifting apparatus at service stations or in mounting tires on rims; I. in processing plants to do work which includes killing, plucking, singeing, drawing, brining, smoking, slicing, grinding, chopping, or cutting operations; J. in walk-in meat freezers or meat coolers, except that occasional entrance to such areas which is incidental to the occupation is not prohibited; K. in any occupation in agriculture that the U.S. secretary of labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children below the age of 16; L. in any manufacturing or commercial warehouse, to do work which includes packaging, shelving, stock-clerking, or cleaning; or M. in a car wash to attach cars to or detach them from mechanized conveyor lines or to operate or contact the car while it is connected to the conveyor apparatus.