rendering (Order 10).
(a) Findings and declaration of fact. The following occupations in
or about slaughtering and meat packing establishments, rendering plants,
or wholesale, retail or service establishments are particularly
hazardous for the employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age or
detrimental to their health or well-being:
(1) All occupations on the killing floor, in curing cellars, and in
hide cellars, except the work of messengers, runners, handtruckers, and
similar occupations which require entering such workrooms or workplaces
infrequently and for short periods of time.
(2) All occupations involved in the recovery of lard and oils,
except packaging and shipping of such products and the operation of
lard-roll machines.
(3) All occupations involved in tankage or rendering of dead
animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into
stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and
similar products.
(4) All occupations involved in the operation or feeding of the
following power-driven machines, including setting-up, adjusting,
repairing, oiling, or cleaning such machines, regardless of the product
being processed by these machines (including, for example, the slicing
in a retail delicatessen of meat, poultry, seafood, bread, vegetables,
or cheese, etc.): Meat patty forming machines, meat and bone cutting
saws, meat slicers, knives (except bacon-slicing machines),
headsplitters, and guillotine cutters; snoutpullers and jaw-pullers;
skinning machines; horizontal rotary washing machines; casing-cleaning
machines such as crushing, stripping, and finishing machines; grinding,
mixing, chopping, and hashing machines; and presses (except belly-
rolling machines).
(5) All boning occupations.
(6) All occupations that involve the pushing or dropping of any
suspended carcass, half carcass, or quarter carcass.
(7) All occupations involving handlifting or handcarrying any
carcass or half carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any quarter carcass
of beef or horse.
(b) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) The term slaughtering and meat packing establishments means
places in or about which cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or
horses are killed, butchered, or processed. The term also includes
establishments which manufacture or process meat products or sausage
casings from such animals.
(2) The term rendering plants means establishments engaged in the
conversion of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats,
blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer
ingredients, and similar products.
(3) The term killing floor includes a workroom, workplace where
cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are immobilized,
shackled, or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to chilling.
(4) The term curing cellar includes a workroom or workplace which is
primarily devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing
materials. It does not include a workroom or workplace solely where
meats are smoked.
(5) The term hide cellar includes a workroom or workplace where
hides are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise cured.
(6) The term boning occupations means the removal of bones from meat
cuts. It does not include work that involves cutting, scraping, or
trimming meat from cuts containing bones.
(7) The term retail/wholesale or service establishments includes
establishments where meat or meat products are processed or handled,
such as butcher shops, grocery stores, restaurants/fast-food
establishments, hotels, delicatessens, and meat-locker (freezer-locker)
companies, and establishments where any food product is prepared or
processed for serving to customers using machines prohibited by section
(a) of this Order.
(c) Exemptions. This section shall not apply to:
(1) The killing and processing of poultry, rabbits, or small game in
areas physically separated from the killing floor.
(2) The employment of apprentices or student-learners under the
conditions prescribed in Sec. 570.50(b) and (c).
[56 FR 58631, Nov. 20, 1991]
