Hazardous Occupations
You generally may not work in any of the following hazardous occupations:- Manufacturing and storing of explosives
- Driving a motor vehicle and being an outside helper on a motor vehicle
- Coal mining
- Logging and sawmilling
- Power-driven woodworking machines
- Exposure to radioactive substances
- Power-driven hoisting apparatus
- Power-driven metal-forming, punching, and shearing machines
- Mining, other than coal mining
- Meat packing or processing (including the use of power-driven meat-slicing machines)
- Power-driven bakery machines
- Power-driven paper-product machines
- Manufacturing brick, tile, and related products
- Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears
- Wrecking, demolition, and ship-breaking operations
- Roofing operations and all work on or about a roof
- Excavation operations
Hazardous Occupations Note: When you are 18 you can work any job for any number of hours. The Child Labor rules no longer apply to you.
NOTE: Different rules apply to farms, and individual States may have stricter rules. Here is another website regarding Child Labor:
http://www.dol.gov/whd/childlabor.htm
