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EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS
Prohibited Occupations and Places of Employment For All Minors Under the Age of 18 Years 
  • Manufacturing and storage of explosives
  • Motor vehicle driving and outside helper
  • Mining
  • Logging and sawmilling
  • The use of electrical tools, circuits, or equipment (except double insulated hand tools)
  • Exposure to radioactive substances or ionization radiation
  • Power-driven hoisting apparatus
  • Power-driven metal-forming, punching or shearing machines
  • Slaughtering or meat packing, processing or rendering. This includes electric meat slicers.
  • Brick, tile, and kindred products manufacturing
  • Wrecking, demolition, and shipbreaking
  • Roofing operations
  • Excavation operations
  • Automotive maintenance and repair, EXCEPT (the following are permitted):
    • island work
    • changing passenger car tires (no truck tires)
    • use of air hand tools
    • preparing cars for painting, limited to sanding and masking (no spray painting or welding)
    • hand cleaning and washing of motor vehicles (no flammable liquids)
    • clerical or bench work
  • Beverage bottling
  • Soldering, welding, brazing, smelting, rolling, flame cutting, or any other types of metal processing
  • Brick, clay or tile manufacturing
  • Coke and tar products processing/manufacturing
  • Dry cleaning/laundry operations
  • Processing of food products
  • Construction, EXCEPT the following:
    • Landscaping (planting small trees, shrubs, etc.)
    • General yard work/cleaning (no riding reel lawn mowers)
    • Brush painting & window cleaning (no ladders over 6 feet, no flammable cleaners/thinners, etc.)
    • Clerical/shipping/stock work
  • Glazing/glass cutting operations
  • Heat treating operations or helper
  • Ice manufacturing
  • Installation/maintenance/repair of electrical machinery/equipment
  • Paper/paper products/paperboard manufacturing
  • Plastic/plastic products manufacturing
  • Pharmaceutical products manufacturing
  • Operation of foot, hand or power presses
  • Printing operations
  • Pressure testing
  • Synthetic fiber manufacturing
  • Rubber/synthetic rubber products manufacturing/processing
  • Spray painting and dipping
  • Stone cutting and processing
  • Leather products processing/tanning
  • Sewing machine operation using needles over 1/16 inch diameter
  • Tire recapping, vulcanizing or manufacturing
  • Textile machinery operations
  • Trash/cardboard compactor
Note: This is only a partial list of prohibited occupations for minors under the age of 18 years. See regulations 31-23-1 for a more complete list or call us for more information at (860) 263-6791.

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