[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR570.51]



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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.  570.51  Occupations in or about plants or establishments 

manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive 

components (Order 1).



    (a) Finding and declaration of fact. The following occupations in or 

about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or 

articles containing explosive components are particularly hazardous for 

minors between 16 and 18 years of age or detrimental to their health or 

well-being:

    (1) All occupations in or about any plant or establishment (other 

than retail establishments or plants or establishments of the type 

described in paragraph (a)(2) of this section) manufacturing or storing 

explosives or articles containing explosive components except where the 

occupation is performed in a ``nonexplosives area'' as defined in 

paragraph (b)(3) of this section.

    (2) The following occupations in or about any plant or establishment 

manufacturing or storing small-arms ammunition not exceeding .60 caliber 

in size, shotgun shells, or blasting caps



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when manufactured or stored in conjunction with the manufacture of 

small-arms ammunition:

    (i) All occupations involved in the manufacturing, mixing, 

transporting, or handling of explosive compounds in the manufacture of 

small-arms ammunition and all other occupations requiring the 

performance of any duties in the explosives area in which explosive 

compounds are manufactured or mixed.

    (ii) All occupations involved in the manufacturing, transporting, or 

handling of primers and all other occupations requiring the performance 

of any duties in the same building in which primers are manufactured.

    (iii) All occupations involved in the priming of cartridges and all 

other occupations requiring the performance of any duties in the same 

workroom in which rim-fire cartridges are primed.

    (iv) All occupations involved in the plate loading of cartridges and 

in the operation of automatic loading machines.

    (v) All occupations involved in the loading, inspecting, packing, 

shipping and storage of blasting caps.

    (b) Definitions. For the purpose of this section:

    (1) The term plant or establishment manufacturing or storing 

explosives or articles containing explosive component means the land 

with all the buildings and other structures thereon used in connection 

with the manufacturing or processing or storing of explosives or 

articles containing explosive components.

    (2) The terms explosives and articles containing explosive 

components mean and include ammunition, black powder, blasting caps, 

fireworks, high explosives, primers, smokeless powder, and explosives 

and explosive materials as defined in 18 U.S.C. 841(c)-(f) and the 

implementing regulations at 27 CFR part 555. The terms include any 

chemical compound, mixture, or device, the primary or common purpose of 

which is to function by explosion, as well as all goods identified in 

the most recent list of explosive materials published by the Bureau of 

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Department of Justice. This 

list is not intended to be all-inclusive and is updated and published 

annually in the Federal Register pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 841(d). A copy of 

the most recent version of the list may be found through the Bureau of 

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' Web site at http://

www.atf.gov.

    (3) An area meeting all of the criteria in paragraphs (b)(3) (i) 

through (iv) of this section shall be deemed a ``nonexplosives area'':

    (i) None of the work performed in the area involves the handling or 

use of explosives;

    (ii) The area is separated from the explosives area by a distance 

not less than that prescribed in the American Table of Distances for the 

protection of inhabited buildings;

    (iii) The area is separated from the explosives area by a fence or 

is otherwise located so that it constitutes a definite designated area; 

and

    (iv) Satisfactory controls have been established to prevent 

employees under 18 years of age within the area from entering any area 

in or about the plant which does not meet criteria of paragraphs (b)(3) 

(i) through (iii) of this section.



[17 FR 4324, May 13, 1952. 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; 69 FR 75403, Dec. 16, 2004]