[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: 29CFR570.60]



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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.  570.60  Occupations in connection with mining, other than coal 

(Order 9).



    (a) Finding and declaration of fact. All occupations in connection 

with mining, other than coal, are particularly hazardous for the 

employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age or detrimental to 

their health or well-being and employment in such occupations is 

therefore prohibited under section 12 of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 

as amended, except the following:

    (1) Work in offices, in the warehouse or supply house, in the change 

house, in the laboratory, and in repair or maintenance shops not located 

underground.

    (2) Work in the operation and maintenance of living quarters.

    (3) Work outside the mine in surveying, in the repair and 

maintenance of roads, and in general clean-up about the mine property 

such as clearing brush and digging drainage ditches.

    (4) Work of track crews in the building and maintaining of sections 

of railroad track located in those areas of open-cut metal mines where 

mining and haulage activities are not being conducted at the time and 

place that such building and maintenance work is being done.

    (5) Work in or about surface placer mining operations other than 

placer dredging operations and hydraulic placer mining operations.

    (6) The following work in metal mills other than in mercury-recovery 

mills or mills using the cyanide process:

    (i) Work involving the operation of jigs, sludge tables, flotation 

cells, or drier-filters;

    (ii) Work of hand-sorting at picking table or picking belt;

    (iii) General clean-up work:



Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed as 

permitting employment of minors in any occupation prohibited by any 

other hazardous occupations order issued by the Secretary of Labor.

    (b) Definitions. As used in this section: The term all occupations 

in connection with mining, other than coal shall mean all work performed 

underground in mines and quarries; on the surface at underground mines 

and underground quarries; in or about open-cut mines, open quarries, 

clay pits, and sand and gravel operations; at or about placer mining 

operations; at or about dredging operations for clay, sand or gravel; at 

or about bore-hole mining operations; in or about all metal mills, 

washer plants, or grinding mills reducing the bulk of the extracted 

minerals; and at or about any other crushing, grinding, screening, 

sizing, washing or cleaning operations performed upon the extracted 

minerals except where such operations are performed as a part of a 

manufacturing process. The term shall not include work performed in



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subsequent manufacturing or processing operations, such as work 

performed in smelters, electro-metallurgical plants, refineries 

reduction plants, cement mills, plants where quarried stone is cut, 

sanded and further processed, or plants manufacturing clay glass or 

ceramic products. Neither shall the term include work performed in 

connection with coal mining, in petroleum production, in natural-gas 

production, nor in dredging operations which are not a part of mining 

operations, such as dredging for construction or navigation purposes.



[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, 

and amended at 28 FR 3449, Apr. 9, 1963. Redesignated at 36 FR 25156, 

Dec. 29, 1971]