Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 25 - CHILD LABOR
Subchapter 4 - HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS
Section 12-25-47 - Occupations in or about slaughtering and meat packing establishments and rendering plants

Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 12-25-47

Current through August, 2024

(a) As used in this section:

"Boning occupations" means the removal of bones from meat cuts. It does not include work that involves cutting, scraping, or trimming meat from cuts containing bones.

"Curing cellar" includes the workroom or workplace which is primarily devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing materials. It does not include the workroom or workplace where meats are smoked.

"Hide cellar" includes the workroom or workplace where hides are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise cured.

"Killing floor" includes the workroom or workplace where cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats or horses are immobilized, shackled, or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to chilling.

"Rendering plants" means establishments engaged in the conversion of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products.

"Slaughtering and meat packing establishments" means places in or about which cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are killed, butchered, or processed. The term shall also include establishments which manufacture or process meat products or sausage casings from such animals.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the following occupations in or about slaughtering and meat packing establishments, rendering plants, or wholesale, retail, or service establishments are declared hazardous for minors under eighteen years of age:

(1) All occupations on the killing floor, in curing cellars, and in hide cellars, except the work of messengers, runners, handtruckers, and similar occupations which require entering such workrooms or workplaces infrequently and for short periods of time;

(2) All occupations involved in the recovery of lard and oils, except packaging and shipping of such products and the operation of lard-roll machines;

(3) All occupations involved in tankage or rendering of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products;

(4) All occupations involved in the operation or feeding of the following power-driven meat processing machines, including setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning meat patty forming machines, meat and bone cutting saws, knives (except bacon slicing machines), head-splitters, and guillotine cutters; snout-pullers and jaw-pullers; skinning machines; horizontal rotary washing machines; casing cleaning machines such as crushing, stripping, and finishing machines; grinding, mixing, chopping, and hashing machines; and presses (except belly-rolling machines);

(5) All boning occupations;

(6) All occupations that involve the pushing or dropping of any suspended carcass, half-carcass, or quarter-carcass; and

(7) All occupations involving hand-lifting or hand-carrying any carcass or half-carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any quarter-carcass of beef or horse.

(c) This section shall not apply to:

(1) Minors who have attained the age of sixteen engaged in the killing and processing of poultry, rabbits, or small game in areas physically separated from the killing floor; or

(2) The employment of any apprentice, trainee, student-learner, or enrollee under conditions prescribed in section 12-25-43.

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