[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR570.51]

[Page 294-295]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                        CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR
                                DIVISION,
                           DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 570--CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart E--Occupations Particularly Hazardous for the Employment of 
Minors Between 16 and 18 Years of Age or Detrimental to Their Health or 
                               Well-Being
 
Sec. 570.51  Occupations in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components (Order 1).

    (a) Finding and declaration of fact. The following occupations in or 
about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or 
articles containing explosive components are particularly hazardous for 
minors between 16 and 18 years of age or detrimental to their health or 
well-being:
    (1) All occupations in or about any plant or establishment (other 
than retail establishments or plants or establishments of the type 
described in paragraph (a)(2) of this section) manufacturing or storing 
explosives or articles containing explosive components except where the 
occupation is performed in a ``nonexplosives area'' as defined in 
paragraph (b)(3) of this section.
    (2) The following occupations in or about any plant or establishment 
manufacturing or storing small-arms ammunition not exceeding .60 caliber 
in size, shotgun shells, or blasting caps when manufactured or stored in 
conjunction with the manufacture of small-arms ammunition:
    (i) All occupations involved in the manufacturing, mixing, 
transporting, or handling of explosive compounds in the manufacture of 
small-arms ammunition and all other occupations requiring the 
performance of any duties in the explosives area in which explosive 
compounds are manufactured or mixed.
    (ii) All occupations involved in the manufacturing, transporting, or 
handling of primers and all other occupations requiring the performance 
of any duties in the same building in which primers are manufactured.
    (iii) All occupations involved in the priming of cartridges and all 
other occupations requiring the performance of any duties in the same 
workroom in which rim-fire cartridges are primed.
    (iv) All occupations involved in the plate loading of cartridges and 
in the operation of automatic loading machines.
    (v) All occupations involved in the loading, inspecting, packing, 
shipping and storage of blasting caps.
    (b) Definitions. For the purpose of this section:

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    (1) The term plant or establishment manufacturing or storing 
explosives or articles containing explosive component means the land 
with all the buildings and other structures thereon used in connection 
with the manufacturing or processing or storing of explosives or 
articles containing explosive components.
    (2) The terms explosives and articles containing explosive 
components mean and include ammunition, black powder, blasting caps, 
fireworks, high explosives, primers, smokeless powder, and all goods 
classified and defined as explosives by the Interstate Commerce 
Commission in regulations for the transportation of explosives and other 
dangerous substances by common carriers (49 CFR parts 71 to 78) issued 
pursuant to the Act of June 25, 1948 (62 Stat.739; 18 U.S.C. 835).
    (3) An area meeting all of the criteria in paragraphs (b)(3) (i) 
through (iv) of this section shall be deemed a ``nonexplosives area'':
    (i) None of the work performed in the area involves the handling or 
use of explosives;
    (ii) The area is separated from the explosives area by a distance 
not less than that prescribed in the American Table of Distances for the 
protection of inhabited buildings;
    (iii) The area is separated from the explosives area by a fence or 
is otherwise located so that it constitutes a definite designated area; 
and
    (iv) Satisfactory controls have been established to prevent 
employees under 18 years of age within the area from entering any area 
in or about the plant which does not meet criteria of paragraphs (b)(3) 
(i) through (iii) of this section.

[17 FR 4324, May 13, 1952. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, 
and amended at 28 FR 3449, Apr. 9, 1963. Redesignated and amended at 36 
FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971]