(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]
