Unless working as an apprentice, student-learner, or student-employee under the provisions of 41-2-110, a minor 16 or 17 years of age may not be employed in or in connection with any of the following occupations:

1. (1) manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components;
2. (2) logging and the operation of a sawmill, lath mill, or shingle mill;
3. (3) the operation of power-driven woodworking machines;
4. (4) an occupation involving exposure to a radioactive substance or ionizing radiation;
5. (5) the operation of a freight elevator, except for a freight elevator permitted for use under the child labor provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, or other power-driven hoisting apparatus;
6. (6) the operation of a power-driven metal forming, punching, and shearing machine;
7. (7) a mining occupation;
8. (8) slaughtering, meatpacking, meat processing, or rendering;
9. (9) the operation of a power-driven bakery machine;
10. (10) the operation of a power-driven paper products machine;
11. (11) the manufacture of brick, tile, or similar products;
12. (12) the operation of a circular saw, bandsaw, or guillotine shears;
13. (13) a wrecking or demolition operation;
14. (14) an excavation operation;
15. (15) a roofing operation;
16. (16) riding outside a motor vehicle to assist in transporting or delivering goods; and
17. (17) a coal mining operation.

History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 391, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 135, L. 2021.