12- 170 C.M.R. ch. 11, § 3

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024

Section 170-11-3 - State Prohibited Occupations

A.Minors Under Sixteen Years of Age

Minors under the age of sixteen may not be employed in the following occupations:

1. Any manufacturing occupation;

2. Any mining occupation;

3. Any processing occupation (except those allowed in retail, food service and gasoline service stations, and all other venues not prohibited by federal law);

4. Motor vehicle driving of any kind and outside helper;

5. Operation or tending of hoisting apparatus or of any power-driven machinery other than non-hazardous office machines or machines in retail, food service and gasoline service establishments that are allowed by federal law;

6. Construction occupations involving:

a. Maintenance and repair of public highways;

b. All roofing occupations;

c. All trenching and excavation operations;

7. All work in boiler or engine rooms;

8. Outside window washing that involves working from window sills and all work involving the use of ladders, scaffolds or their substitutes;

9. Cooking (except at soda fountains, lunch counters, snack bars or cafeteria serving counters and other venues allowed by federal law) and baking;

10. Occupations which involve operating, setting up, adjusting, cleaning, oiling, or repairing power-driven food slicers and grinders, food choppers and cutters and bakery-type mixers;

11. All work in freezers and meat coolers;

12. Occupations involving the use of power-driven mowers or cutters, including the use of chain saws;

13. All warehousing occupations, including the loading and unloading of trucks and use of conveyers;

14. All welding, brazing or soldering occupations;

15. Occupations involving the use of toxic chemicals and paints;

16. Selling door-to-door (except when the minor is selling candy or merchandise as a fund-raiser for school or for an organization to which the minor belongs, such as Girl Scouts of America) or work in a traveling youth crew;

17. All occupations on amusement rides, including ticket collection or sales;

18. Any placement at the scene of a fire, explosion or other emergency response situation: and

19. All occupations that are expressly prohibited for sixteen and seventeen-year-old minors;

B.Minors Sixteen and Seventeen Years of Age

Minors who are sixteen and seventeen years of age may not be employed in the following occupations:

1. Manufacturing and storing explosives;

2. Motor vehicle driving on public roadways and outside helper;

3. All mining occupations;

4.* Power-driven woodworking machines;

5. Power-driven hoisting apparatus;

6.* Power-driven metal forming, punching and shearing machines;

7.* Slaughtering or meat packing, processing or rendering occupations (this includes meat slicers, grinders and choppers);

8.* Power-driven paper products machines;

9. Manufacturing brick, tile, and kindred products;

10.* Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears;

11. Wrecking and demolition occupations;

12.* Roofing operations;

13.* Excavation operations;

14. All occupations in places having nude entertainment;

15. Placement at the scene of a fire, explosion or other emergency except as provided in part 4(C)& 4(E);

16.* Gas or electric welding, brazing, burning or cutting if done in conjunction with other hazardous occupation such as wrecking, demolition and ship breaking operations;

17. Work that involves entry into a confined space where the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations require a permit entry system under 29 CFR 1910.146 as amended August 1, 2003; and

18. Working at heights where the U. S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations require special precautions or personal protective equipment:

a. Walking working surfaces more than 4 feet above the next closest surface without a standard railing as required under 29 CFR 1910.23 as amended August 1, 2003.

b. Fixed ladders of more than 20 feet in height; and

c. Scaffolding work performed more than 10 feet above the working surface supporting the scaffold where railings or fall protection is required under the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CRF 1910.28 as amended August 1, 2003.

19. All occupations in registered dispensaries of marijuana for medical use authorized under Title 22, chapter 558-C and in establishments that cultivate, produce or sell marijuana or products in which marijuana is an ingredient or in recreational marijuana social clubs authorized under Title 7, chapter 417.

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