[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: 29CFR570.54]

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                             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. 570.54  Logging occupations and occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill (Order 4).

    (a) Finding and declaration of fact. All occupations in logging and 
all occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle 
mill, or cooperage-stock mill are particularly hazardous for the 
employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age, except the 
following:
    (1) Exceptions applying to logging:
    (i) Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops.
    (ii) Work in the construction, operation, repair, or maintenance of 
living and administrative quarters of logging camps.
    (iii) Work in timber cruising, surveying, or logging-engineering 
parties; work in the repair or maintenance of roads, railroads, or 
flumes; work in forest protection, such as clearing fire trails or 
roads, piling and burning slash, maintaining fire-fighting equipment, 
constructing and maintaining telephone lines, or acting as fire lookout 
or fire patrolman away from the actual logging operations: Provided, 
That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the felling of 
bucking of timber, the collecting or transporting of logs, the operation 
of power-driven machinery, the handling or use of explosives, and work 
on trestles.
    (iv) Peeling of fence posts, pulpwood, chemicalwood, excelsior wood, 
cordwood, or similar products, when not done in conjunction with and at 
the same time and place as other logging occupations declared hazardous 
by this section.
    (v) Work in the feeding or care of animals.
    (2) Exceptions applying to the operation of any permanent sawmill or 
the operation of any lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill: 
Provided, That these exceptions do not apply to a portable sawmill the 
lumberyard of which is used only for the temporary storage of green 
lumber and in connection with which no office or repair or maintenance 
shop is ordinarily maintained: And further provided, That these 
exceptions do not apply to work which entails entering the sawmill 
building:
    (i) Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops.
    (ii) Straightening, marking, or tallying lumber on the dry chain or 
the dry drop sorter.
    (iii) Pulling lumber from the dry chain.
    (iv) Clean-up in the lumberyard.
    (v) Piling, handling, or shipping of cooperage stock in yards or 
storage sheds other than operating or assisting in the operation of 
power-driven equipment.
    (vi) Clerical work in yards or shipping sheds, such as done by 
ordermen, tally-men, and shipping clerks.
    (vii) Clean-up work outside shake and shingle mills, except when the 
mill is in operation.
    (viii) Splitting shakes manually from precut and split blocks with a 
froe and mallet, except inside the mill building or cover.
    (ix) Packing shakes into bundles when done in conjunction with 
splitting shakes manually with a froe and mallet, except inside the mill 
building or cover.
    (x) Manual loading of bundles of shingles or shakes into trucks or 
railroad cars, provided that the employer has on file a statement from a 
licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy certifying the minor capable 
of performing this work without injury to himself.
    (b) Definition. As used in this section:
    (1) The term all occupations in logging shall mean all work 
performed in connection with the felling of timber; the bucking or 
converting of timber into logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, 
chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar 
products; the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting and 
unloading of such products in connection with logging; the constructing, 
repairing and maintaining of roads, railroads, flumes, or camps used in 
connection with logging; the moving, installing, rigging, and 
maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging; and other work 
performed in connection with logging. The term shall not apply to work 
performed in timber culture, timber-stand improvement, or in emergency 
fire-fighting.
    (2) The term all occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath 
mill, shingle

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mill, or cooperage-stock mill shall mean all work performed in or about 
any such mill in connection with storing of logs and bolts; converting 
logs or bolts into sawn lumber, laths, shingles, or cooperage stock; 
storing, drying, and shipping lumber, laths, shingles, cooperage stock, 
or other products of such mills; and other work performed in connection 
with the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or 
cooperage-stock mill. The term shall not include work performed in the 
planing-mill department or other remanufacturing departments of any 
sawmill, or in any planing mill or remanufacturing plant not a part of a 
sawmill.

[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, 
and amended at 28 FR 3449, Apr. 9, 1963; 32 FR 6024, Apr. 15, 1967. 
Redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971]