[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR570.53]

[Page 315]
 
                             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 
 
Sec. 570.53  Coal-mine occupations (Order 3).

    (a) Finding and declaration of fact. All occupations in or about any 
coal mine, except the occupation of slate or other refuse picking at a 
picking table or picking chute in a tipple or breaker and occupations 
requiring the performance of duties solely in offices or in repair or 
maintenance shops located in the surface part of any coal-mining plant, 
are particularly hazardous for the employment of minors between 16 and 
18 years of age.
    (b) Definitions. For the purpose of this section:
    (1) The term coal shall mean any rank of coal including lignite, 
bituminous, and the anthracite coals.
    (2) The term all occupations in or about any coal mine shall mean 
all types of work performed in any underground working, open-pit, or 
surface part of any coal-mining plant, that contribute to the 
extraction, grading, cleaning, or other handling of coal.

[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. 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]