Section 12-25-55 - Occupations in connection with mining(a) As used in this section, "all occupations in connection with mining" means all work performed: (1) Underground in mines and quarries;(2) On the surface at underground mines and underground quarries;(3) In or about open-cut mines, open quarries, clay pits, and sand and gravel operations;(4) At or about placer mining operations;(5) At or about dredging operations for clay, sand, or gravel;(6) At or about bore-hole mining operations;(7) In or about all metal mills, washer plants, or grinding mills reducing the bulk of the extracted minerals; and(8) At or about any other crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing, or cleaning operations performed upon the extracted minerals except where such operations are performed as a part of a manufacturing process. The term does not include work performed in subsequent manufacturing or processing operations, such as work performed in smelters, electrometallurgical plants, refineries, reduction plants, cement mills, plants where quarried stone is cut, sanded, and further processed, or plants manufacturing clay, glass, or ceramic products. Neither does the term include work performed in petroleum production, natural-gas production, nor dredging operations which are not a part of mining operations, such as dredging for construction or navigation purposes.
(b) All occupations in connection with mining are declared hazardous for minors under eighteen years of age except the following: (1) Work in offices, in the warehouse or supply house, in the change house, in the laboratory, and in repair or maintenance shops not located underground;(2) Work in the operation and maintenance of living quarters;(3) Work outside the mine in surveying, in the repair and maintenance of roads, and in general clean up about the mine property such as clearing brush and digging drainage ditches;(4) Work of track crews in the building and maintaining of sections of railroad track located in those areas of open-cut metal mines where mining and haulage activities are not being conducted at the time and places that such building and maintenance work is being done;(5) Work in or about surface placer mining operations other than placer dredging operations and hydraulic placer mining operations; and(6) The following work in metal mills other than in mercury-recovery mills or mills using the cyanide process: (A) Work involving the operation of jigs, sludge tables, flotation cells, or drier-filters;(B) Hand-sorting at picking table or picking belt; and(C) General clean up work.(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as permitting employment of minors in any occupation deemed hazardous by any other section.[Eff. OCT. 5, 1981] (Auth: HRS §§ 390-2, 390-6) (Imp: HRS § 390-2)