Labor Standards -- Child labor:  prohibited work for minors

Minors are prohibited to work:

• in any agricultural operation declared by the U.S. Secretary of Labor to be particularly hazardous for employment of children less than age 16.

Minors are prohibited to work:

• operating or assisting in the operation of machinery;

• operating laundry, rug cleaning or dry-cleaning equipment;

• operating power-driven snowblowers, lawn mowers or garden equipment;

• operating drill presses, milling machines, grinders, lathes and portable power-driven machinery such as drills, sanders, and polishing and scrubbing equipment for floor maintenance;

• operating meat slicers, textile-making machines or bakery machinery;

• oiling, cleaning or maintaining any power-driven machinery;

• using pits, racks or lifting apparatus at service stations or in mounting tires on rims; and

• in a car wash to attach cars to or detach them from mechanized conveyor lines or to operate or contact the car while it is connected to the conveyor.

Minors are prohibited to work:

• welding;

• as a loader or launcher for skeet- or trap-shooting;

• in a manufacturing or commercial warehouse; and

• in a processing plant.

Minors are prohibited to work:

• in or about an airport landing strip and taxi or maintenance aprons; and

• as an outside helper on a motor vehicle.

Minors are prohibited to work:

• lifting, carrying or caring for patients in hospitals or nursing homes; and

• in walk-in meat freezers or meat coolers, except for occasional entrance.