(a) As used in this
section:
"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.
"Curing cellar" includes the workroom or workplace which is
primarily devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing
materials. It does not include the workroom or workplace where meats are
smoked.
"Hide cellar" includes the workroom or workplace where hides
are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise cured.
"Killing floor" includes the workroom or workplace where
cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats or horses are immobilized, shackled,
or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to chilling.
"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.
"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 shall also include establishments
which manufacture or process meat products or sausage casings from such
animals.
(b) Except as
otherwise provided in this section, the following occupations in or about
slaughtering and meat packing establishments, rendering plants, or wholesale,
retail, or service establishments are declared hazardous for minors under
eighteen years of age:
(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
meat processing machines, including setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling,
or cleaning meat patty forming machines, meat and bone cutting saws, knives
(except bacon slicing machines), head-splitters, and guillotine cutters;
snout-pullers 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; and
(7) All occupations involving hand-lifting or
hand-carrying any carcass or half-carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any
quarter-carcass of beef or horse.
(c) This section shall not apply to:
(1) Minors who have attained the age of
sixteen engaged in the killing and processing of poultry, rabbits, or small
game in areas physically separated from the killing floor; or
(2) The employment of any apprentice,
trainee, student-learner, or enrollee under conditions prescribed in section
12-25-43.
