[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: 29CFR570.53]



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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.  570.53  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.



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    (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]