Employment of minors under age 16 is subject to the following additional restrictions. They are prohibited from working:

1. (1) In any manufacturing operations.
2. (2) In any processing operations (including, but not limited to, filleting of fish, dressing poultry, cracking nuts, commercial processing, canning, freezing or drying of foods, laundering as performed by commercial laundries and dry cleaning). Minors may perform clerical tasks so long as the work is not prohibited by subsection (3) of this section.
3. (3) In occupations requiring the performance of duties in work rooms or workplaces where goods are manufactured, mined, or otherwise processed.
4. (4) In occupations involving the operation, tending, setting up, adjusting, cleaning, oiling, or repairing of all hoisting apparatuses.
5. (5) In occupations involving operation or repair, oiling, cleaning, adjusting, or setting up of or working in proximity to any power-driven machinery.
6. (6) In occupations involving operation of motor vehicles and service as helpers on such vehicles.
7. (7) In occupations involving outside window washing.
8. (8) In occupations involving the use of ladders, scaffolds, or their substitutes.
9. (9) In occupations involving baking.
10. (10) In occupations involving cooking.
11. (11) In occupations involving youth peddling or the holding, wearing, or waving of signs, merchandise, costumes, sandwich boards, or placards in order to attract potential customers, except when performed inside of, or directly in front of, the employer's establishment providing the product, service, or event being advertised.
12. (12) In occupations involving loading and unloading goods or property onto or from motor vehicles and railroad cars.
13. (13) In occupations involving loading and unloading goods or property onto or from conveyors.
14. (14) In occupations involving catching and cooping of poultry in preparation for transport or for market.
15. (15) In any public messenger service including, but not limited to, work that is performed by foot, bicycle, or public transportation.

16. (16) In the following occupations, except minors may perform office work related to the occupations if none of the minor's work is performed on trains, motor vehicles, aircraft, vessels, or other media of transportation or at the actual site of construction operations:

    1. (a) Transportation of persons or property by rail, highway, air, water, pipeline, or other means;
    2. (b) Warehouse and storage;
    3. (c) Communications and public utilities;
    4. (d) Construction, including demolition and repair.
17. (17) In maintenance or repair work of retail, food service, or gasoline service station establishments.
18. (18) In occupations involving work in the operation of amusement parks, street carnivals, and traveling shows.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.12.121 and 49.30.060. WSR 26-11-048 (Order 25-21), s 296-125-141, filed 5/19/26, effective 7/1/26.]