Minn. R. agency 151, ch. 5200, CHILD LABOR STANDARDS, pt. 5200.0920

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 20, November 12, 2024

Part 5200.0920 - 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.

Minn. R. agency 151, ch. 5200, CHILD LABOR STANDARDS, pt. 5200.0920

Statutory Authority: MS s 181A.09