(a) As used in this
section:
"All occupations in logging" means all work performed in
connection with the felling of timber; the bucking or converting of timber into
logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood,
cordwood, fence posts, or similar products; the collecting, skidding, yarding,
loading, transporting, and unloading of such products in connection with
logging; the constructing, repairing, and maintaining of roads, railroads,
flumes, or camps used in connection with logging; the moving, installing,
rigging, and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging; and other
work performed in connection with logging. The term shall not apply to work
performed in timber culture, timber-stand improvement, or in emergency
fire-fighting.
"All occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill,
shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill" means all work performed in or about any
such mill in connection with storing of logs and bolts; converting logs or
bolts into sawn lumber, laths, shingles, or cooperage stock; storing, drying,
and shipping lumber, laths, shingles, cooperage stock, or other products of
such mills; and other work performed in connection with the operations of any
sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill. The term shall not
include work performed in the planing mill department or other remanufacturing
department of any sawmill, or in any planing mill or remanufacturing plant not
a part of a sawmill.
(b)
All occupations in logging and all occupations in the operation of any sawmill,
lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill are declared hazardous for
minors under eighteen years of age.
(c) This section shall not apply to the
employment in the following occupations of minors who have attained the age of
sixteen:
(1) Exceptions applying to logging:
(A) Work in offices or in the repair or
maintenance shops;
(B) Work in the
construction, operation, repair, or maintenance of living and administrative
quartets of logging camps;
(C) Work
in timber cruising, surveying, or logging-engineering parties; work in the
repair or maintenance of roads, railroads, or flumes; work in forest
protection, such as clearing fire trails or roads, piling and burning slash,
maintaining fire-fighting equipment, constructing and maintaining telephone
lines, or acting as fire lookout or fire patroller away from the actual logging
operations; provided that the provisions of this subparagraph shall not apply
to the felling or bucking of timber, the collecting or transporting of logs,
the operation of power-driven machinery, the handling or use of explosives, and
work on trestles;
(D) Peeling of
fence posts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, or similar
products, when not done in conjunction with and at the same time and place as
other logging occupations declared hazardous by this section; and
(E) Work in the feeding or care of animals;
and
(2) Exceptions
applying to the operation of any permanent sawmill or the operation of any lath
mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill; provided that these exceptions do
not apply to a portable sawmill the lumberyard of which is used only for the
temporary storage of green lumber and in connection with which no office or
repair or maintenance shop is ordinarily maintained; and further provided that
these exceptions do not apply to work which entails entering the sawmill
building:
(A) Work in offices or in repair or
maintenance shops;
(B)
Straightening, marking, or tallying lumber on the dry chain or the dry drop
sorter;
(C) Pulling lumber from the
dry chain;
(D) Clean up in the
lumberyard;
(E) Piling, handling,
or shipping of cooperage stock in yards or storage sheds, other than operating
or assisting in the operation of power-driven equipment;
(F) Clerical work in yards or shipping sheds,
such as done by order clerks, counters, and shipping clerks;
(G) Clean up work outside shake and shingle
mills, except when the mill is in operation;
(H) Splitting shakes manually from pre-cut
and split blocks with a froe and mallet, except inside the mill building or
cover;
(I) Packing shakes into
bundles when done in conjunction with splitting shakes manually with a froe and
mallet, except inside the mill building or cover; and
(J) Manual loading of bundles of shingles or
shakes into trucks or railroad cars, provided that the employer has on file a
statement from a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy certifying the minor
capable of performing this work without injury to the minor.
