Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 40 - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
Part VII - Conditions under Which Minor Labor May Be Used
Chapter 5 - Hazardous Occupations
Section VII-531 - Slaughtering, Meat-Packing or Processing, or Rendering Occupations

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code VII-531

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Definitions

Boning Occupation-an occupation which involves removal of bones from meat cuts. It does not include scraping or trimming meat from cuts containing bones.

Curing Cellar-a workroom or workplace which is primarily devoted to preservation and flavoring meat by curing materials. It does not include an area where meat is smoked.

Hide Cellar-a workroom or workplace in which hides are graded, trimmed, slated, and otherwise cured.

Killing Floor-the workroom or workplace in which cattle, hogs, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, or other animals are immobilized, shackled, or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to being chilled.

Rendering Plant-any establishment engaged in conversion of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feed, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products.

Slaughtering and Meat-Packing Establishment-places in and about which cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or other animals are killed, butchered, or processed. Included are establishments which manufacture or process meat products or sausage casings from such animals.

B. Prohibited Occupations. The following occupations are prohibited:

1. all occupations on the killing floor, in curing cellars, and in hide cellars;

2. all occupations involved in recovery of lard and oils;

3. all occupations involved in tankage or rendering whether or not in a rendering plant, or a slaughter house;

4. all occupations involved in operating, setting up, adjusting, oiling, or cleaning any power-driven machine used in a slaughtering, meat-packing or processing, or rendering plant;

5. all boning work;

6. all occupations which involve pushing or dropping any suspended carcass, half carcass, or quarter carcass;

7. all occupations involving hand carrying any carcass or half carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any quarter carcass of beef or horse.

C. Exemptions. Registered apprentices and registered student learners are exempt from prohibitions which apply to occupations involved in slaughtering, meat-packing or processing, or rendering.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 23:161.

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