[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR570.55]

[Page 270]
 
                             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. 570.55  Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven 
woodworking machines (Order 5).

    (a) Finding and declaration of fact. The following occupations 
involved in the operation of power-driven wood-working machines are 
particularly hazardous for minors between 16 and 18 years of age:
    (1) The occupation of operating power-driven woodworking machines, 
including supervising or controlling the operation of such machines, 
feeding material into such machines, and helping the operator to feed 
material into such machines but not including the placing of material on 
a moving chain or in a hopper or slide for automatic feeding.
    (2) The occupations of setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or 
cleaning power-driven woodworking machines.
    (3) The occupations of off-bearing from circular saws and from 
guillotine-action veneer clippers.
    (b) Definitions. As used in this section:
    (1) The term power-driven woodworking machines shall mean all fixed 
or portable machines or tools driven by power and used or designed for 
cutting, shaping, forming, surfacing, nailing, stapling, wire stitching, 
fastening, or otherwise assembling, pressing, or printing wood or 
veneer.
    (2) The term off-bearing shall mean the removal of material or 
refuse directly from a saw table or from the point of operation. 
Operations not considered as off-bearing within the intent of this 
section include: (i) The removal of material or refuse from a circular 
saw or guillotine-action veneer clipper where the material or refuse has 
been conveyed away from the saw table or point of operation by a gravity 
chute or by some mechanical means such as a moving belt or expulsion 
roller, and (ii) the following operations when they do not involve the 
removal of material or refuse directly from a saw table or from the 
point of operation: The carrying, moving, or transporting of materials 
from one machine to another or from one part of a plant to another; the 
piling, stacking, or arranging of materials for feeding into a machine 
by another person; and the sorting, tying, bundling, or loading of 
materials.
    (c) Exemptions. This section shall not apply to the employment of 
apprentices or student-learners under the conditions prescribed in Sec. 
570.50 (b) and (c).

[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]