DWD 270.12(18)(a)6.
6. All occupations that involve the pushing or dropping of any suspended carcass, half carcass, or quarter carcass.
DWD 270.12(18)(a)7.
7. All occupations involving hand–lifting or hand–carrying any carcass or half carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any quarter carcass of beef or horse.
DWD 270.12(18)(b)1.
1. “Boning occupations" means the removal of bones from meat cuts. “Boning" does not include work that involves cutting, scrapping, or trimming meat from cuts containing bones.
DWD 270.12(18)(b)2.
2. “Curing cellar" includes a workroom or workplace that is primarily devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing materials. “Curing cellar" does not include a workroom or workplace where meats are smoked.
DWD 270.12(18)(b)3.
3. “Hide cellar" includes a workroom or workplace where hides are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise cured.
DWD 270.12(18)(b)4.
4. “Killing floor" includes a workroom or workplace where cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are immobilized, shackled, or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to chilling.
DWD 270.12(18)(b)5.
5. “Rendering plants" means establishments engaged in the conversion of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products.
DWD 270.12(18)(b)6.
6. “Slaughtering and meat packing establishments" means places in or about which cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are killed, butchered, or processed. “Slaughtering and meat packing establishments" also includes establishments that manufacture or process meat products or sausage casings from such animals.
DWD 270.12(19)
(19)
Metal-forming, punching, and shearing power–driven machines. DWD 270.12(19)(a)
(a)
Prohibitions. No minor may be employed in any of the following occupations:
DWD 270.12(19)(a)1.
1. The occupations of operator of or helper on the following power–driven metal-forming, punching, and shearing machines:
DWD 270.12(19)(a)1.a.
a. All rolling machines, such as beading, straightening, corrugating, flanging, or bending rolls; and hot or cold rolling mills.
DWD 270.12(19)(a)1.b.
b. All pressing or punching machines, such as punch presses, except those provided with full automatic feed and ejection and with a fixed barrier guard to prevent the hands or fingers of the operator from entering the area between the dies; power presses; and plate punches.
DWD 270.12(19)(a)1.e.
e. All shearing machines, such as guillotine or squaring shears; alligator shears; and rotary shears.
DWD 270.12(19)(a)2.
2. The occupations of setting–up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning these machines including those with automatic feed and ejection.
DWD 270.12(19)(b)1.
1. “Forming, punching, and shearing machines" means power–driven metal–working machines, other than machine tools, which change the shape of or cut metal by means of tools, such as dies, rolls, or knives which are mounted on rams, plungers, or other moving parts. Types of forming, punching, and shearing machines enumerated in this subsection are the machines to which the designation is by custom applied.
DWD 270.12(19)(b)2.
2. “Helper" means a person who assists in the operation of a machine covered by this subsection by helping to place materials into the machine or helping to remove them from the machine.
DWD 270.12(19)(b)3.
3. “Operator" means a person who operates a machine covered by this subsection by performing such functions as starting or stopping the machine, placing materials into or removing them from the machine, or any other functions directly involved in operation of the machine.
DWD 270.12(20)(a)
(a)
Prohibition and exceptions. No minor may be employed in any occupation in connection with mining, other than coal, except the following:
DWD 270.12(20)(a)1.
1. Work in offices, the warehouse or supply house, the change house, the laboratory, or in repair or maintenance shops not located underground.
DWD 270.12(20)(a)3.
3. Work outside the mine in surveying, the repair and maintenance of roads, or general clean–up about the mine property, such as clearing brush and digging drainage ditches.
DWD 270.12(20)(a)4.
4. Work of track crews in the building and maintaining of sections of railroad track located in those areas of open–cut metal mines where mining and hauling activities are not being conducted at the time and place that the building and maintenance work is being done.
DWD 270.12(20)(a)5.
5. Work in or about surface placer mining operations other than placer dredging operations and hydraulic placer mining operations.
DWD 270.12(20)(a)6.
6. The following work in metal mills other than in mercury–recovery mills or mills using the cyanide process:
DWD 270.12(20)(a)6.a.
a. Work involving the operation of jigs, sludge tables, flotation cells, or drier–filters.
DWD 270.12(20)(b)1.
1. “All occupations in connection with mining, other than coal" means all work performed underground in mines and quarries; on the surface at underground mines and underground quarries; in or about open–cut mines, open quarries, clay pits, and sand and gravel operations; at or about placer mining operations; at or about dredging operations for clay, sand or gravel; at or about bore–hole mining operations; in or about all metal mills, washer plants, or grinding mills reducing the bulk of the extracted minerals; and at or about any other crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing or cleaning operations performed upon the extracted minerals except where these operations are performed as a part of a manufacturing process.
DWD 270.12(20)(b)2.
2. “All occupations in connection with mining, other than coal" does not include work performed in subsequent manufacturing or processing operations, such as work performed in smelters, electro–metallurgical plants, refineries, reduction plants, cement mills, plants where quarried stone is cut, sanded and further processed, or plants manufacturing clay, glass or ceramic products. The term does not include work performed in connection with coal mining, in petroleum production, in natural gas production, nor in dredging operations which are not a part of mining operations, such as dredging for construction or navigation purposes.
DWD 270.12 Note
Note: For restrictions on minors working in any occupation in or about a coal mine, see sub. (8).
DWD 270.12(21)(a)
(a)
Prohibition. Except as provided in par.
(b), no minor may be employed as a motor vehicle driver or outside helper on any public road; highway; in or about a mine, including an open pit mine or quarry; in a place where logging or sawmill operations are in progress; or in any excavation of the type identified in sub.
(9).
DWD 270.12(21)(b)
(b) Exception-incidental and occasional driving by 17-year-olds. Minors who are at least 17 years of age may drive motor vehicles on public roadways when all of the following conditions are met:
DWD 270.12(21)(b)1.
1. The driving is only occasional and incidental to the minor's employment.
DWD 270.12(21)(b)3.
3. The driving takes place within a 30-mile radius of the minor's place of employment.
DWD 270.12(21)(b)5.
5. The minor has completed a state-approved driver education course and holds a state license valid for the type of driving involved in the job that the minor performs.
DWD 270.12(21)(b)7.
7. The motor vehicle is equipped with a seat belt for the driver and for each passenger, and the minor's employer has instructed each minor that the seat belts must be used when driving or riding in the motor vehicle.
DWD 270.12(21)(b)8.e.
e. Transporting more than 3 passengers who are employees of the employer at any one time.
DWD 270.12(21)(b)8.f.
f. More than two trips away from the primary place of employment in any single day for the purpose of delivering goods of the minor's employer to a customer.
DWD 270.12(21)(c)1.
1. “Driver" means any individual who, in the course of their employment, drives a motor vehicle at any time.
DWD 270.12(21)(c)2.
2. “Gross vehicle weight" includes the truck chassis with lubricants, water and full tank or tanks of fuel, plus the weight of the cab or driver's compartment, body, and special chassis and body equipment, and payload.
DWD 270.12(21)(c)3.
3. “Motor vehicle" means any automobile, truck, truck–tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, motorcycle, or similar vehicle propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designed for use as a means of transportation but does not include any vehicle operated exclusively on rails.
DWD 270.12(21)(c)4.
4. “Occasional and incidental" means no more than one-third of an employee's work time in any workday and no more than 20 percent of an employee's work time in any work week.
DWD 270.12(21)(c)5.
5. “Outside helper" means any individual, other than a driver, whose work includes riding on a motor vehicle outside the cab for the purpose of assisting in transporting or delivering goods.
DWD 270.12(22)(a)(a)
Prohibition. No minor may be employed in any occupations involved in the operating, assisting to operate, setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning any of the following power-driven paper-products machines:
DWD 270.12(22)(a)1.
1. Arm-type wire stitcher or stapler, circular or band saw, corner cutter or mitering machine, corrugating and single-or-double-facing machine, envelope die-cutting press, guillotine paper cutter or shear, horizontal bar scorer, laminating or combing machine, sheeting machine, scrap paper baler, paper box compactor, or vertical slotter.
DWD 270.12(22)(a)2.
2. Platen die–cutting press, platen printing press, or punch press that involves hand feeding of the machine.
DWD 270.12(22)(b)1.
1. “Applicable ANSI Standard" means the American National Standard Institute's Standard ANSI Z245.5-1990 for scrap paper balers or the American National Standard Institute's Standard ANSI Z245.2-1992 for paper box compactors or any replacement standard adopted by the American National Standard Institute that the federal Secretary of Labor has certified to be at least as protective of the safety of minors as Standard ANSI Z245.5-1990 for scrap paper balers or ANSI Z245.2-1992 for paper box compactors.
DWD 270.12 Note
Note: The ANSI standards for scrap paper balers and paper box compactors govern the manufacture and modification of the equipment, the operation and maintenance of the equipment, and employee training. Copies of these standards are available for purchase from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 11 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036.
DWD 270.12(22)(b)2.
2. “Operating or assisting to operate" means all work which involves starting or stopping a machine covered by this subsection, placing materials into or removing materials from a machine, including clearing a machine of jammed paper or cardboard, or any other work directly involved in operating the machine. The term does not include the stacking of materials by an employee in an area nearby or adjacent to the machine where the employee does not place the materials into the machine.
DWD 270.12(22)(b)3.
3. “Paper box compactor" means a powered machine that remains stationary during operation, used to compact refuse, including paper boxes, into a detachable or integral container or into a transfer vehicle.
DWD 270.12(22)(b)4.
4. “Paper products machine" means all power-driven machines used in all of the following:
DWD 270.12(22)(b)4.a.
a. Remanufacturing or converting paper or pulp into a finished product, including preparing these materials for recycling.
DWD 270.12(22)(b)4.b.
b. Preparing paper or pulp materials for disposal. The term applies to these machines whether they are used in establishments that manufacture converted paper or pulp products, or in any other type of manufacturing or nonmanufacturing establishment. The term applies to those machines which, in addition to paper products, also process other material for disposal.
DWD 270.12(22)(b)5.
5. “Scrap-paper baler" means a powered machine used to compress paper and possibly other solid waste, with or without binding, to a density of form that will support handling and transportation as a material unit without requiring a disposable or reusable container.
DWD 270.12(22)(c)
(c) Exemption. Sixteen- and 17-year-old minors may load materials into, but not operate or unload, a scrap paper baler or a paper box compactor only if all of the following conditions are met:
DWD 270.12(22)(c)1.
1. The scrap paper baler or paper box compactor meets the applicable ANSI standard.
DWD 270.12(22)(c)2.
2. The scrap paper baler or paper box compactor includes an on-off switch incorporating a key-lock or other system and the control of the system is maintained in the custody of employees who are 18 years of age or older.
DWD 270.12(22)(c)3.
3. The on-off switch of the scrap paper baler or paper box compactor is maintained in an off position when the machine is not in operation.
DWD 270.12(22)(c)4.
4. The employer posts a notice on the scrap paper baler or paper box compactor in a prominent position and easily visible to any person loading, operating, or unloading the machine stating that: “The scrap paper baler or compactor meets the industry safety standard applicable to the machine, Standard ANSI Z245.5-1990 for scrap paper balers and Standard ANSI Z245.2-1992 for paper box compactors. Sixteen- and 17-year-old employees may only load the scrap paper baler or paper box compactor. No employee under the age of 18 may operate or unload the scrap paper baler or paper box compactor."
DWD 270.12(23)(a)
(a) Prohibition. No minor may be
employed in occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to ionizing radiations in any workroom in which any of the following occurs:
DWD 270.12(23)(a)1.
1. Radium is stored or used in the manufacture of a self–luminous compound.
DWD 270.12(23)(a)4.
4. Incandescent mantles are made from fabric and solutions containing thorium salts, or are processed or packaged.
