Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 2024
The following tools may be used by any minors sixteen or
seventeen years of age only if they are participants in the manufacturing
or construction mentorship program as prescribed
by this chapter:
(A) General tools:
(1) Pipe and bolt threading
machine;
(2) Pipe nipple and
automatic pipe nipple machines;
(3)
Certain electric carts used as a means of transportation in large industrial
plants and at railroad stations, as long as they are not driven on public
roads;
(4) Riding mowers or golf
carts in a warehouse setting, as long as they are not driven on public
roads;
(5) Powered contour
measuring instruments;
(6)
Multi-axis type robotic equipment;
(B) Tools only permitted with conditions:
(1) Welding tools only while under direct
supervision;
(2) Waterjet cutting
machines with devices for fully automatic feeding and ejection and with a fixed
guard that prevents operators or helpers from placing any part of their bodies
in the point-of-operation area;
(3)
Computer numerical control (CNC) machines while under direct
supervision;
(4) Production press
machines that are not already listed as a specific prohibition or exception in
Chapter 4101:9-2 of the Administrative Code, so long as those devices include
fully automatic feeding and ejection and a fixed guard that prevents operators
or helpers from placing any part of their bodies in the point-of-operation
area;
(5) Plastics molding machines
when fitted with the proper guarding and are not manually fed;
(6) Plastics extruders while under direct
supervision;
(7) Soldering irons
while under direct supervision;
(C) Tools restricted by type of use:
(1) Certain tools that require the placing of
material on a moving chain or in a hopper or slide for automatic feeding, such
as:
(a) Band resaw only when it incorporates
the use of a chain feed and there is no direct interaction with the
tool;
(b) Automatic nailing machine
only when it incorporates the use of a hopper, belt, or chain feed, and there
is no direct interaction with the tool;
(2) Automatic wire-stitching machines only
when it incorporates the use of a hopper or chain feed and there is no direct
interaction with the tool;
(3)
Tools designed for carrying or moving nonhazardous material from one machine to
another (hike-a-way).
(D)
Tools permitted for use by a minor who qualifies as an
apprentice or a student-learner under the Fair Labor Standards Act as
prescribed within 29 CFR
570.50 (b) and (c):
(1)
Power-driven
woodworking machines, including fixed and portable machines or tools driven by
power and used or designed for cutting, shaping, forming, surfacing, nailing,
stapling, wire stitching, fastening, or otherwise assembling, pressing, or
printing wood or veneer;
(2)
Abrasive cutting discs, circular saws, and
reciprocating saws;
(3)
Any tools used on or about a roof or in close proximity
to a roof in connection with the installation of the roof or alteration,
addition, maintenance, and repair, including painting and coating of an
existing roof;
(4)
Any tools used in trenching or
excavating.
(E) Miscellaneous
tools:
Any other tools that are permitted under the Fair Labor
Standards Act and are not specifically prohibited by section
4109.05 of the Revised Code or
the rules adopted thereunder.
