Ohio Administrative Code
Title 4101:9 - Wage and Hour
Chapter 4101:9-2 - Employment of Minors in Occupations Hazardous or Detrimental to Health and Well-Being
Section 4101:9-2-16 - Forest fire fighting, forest fire prevention, logging, and sawmilling occupations
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 4101:9-2-16
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) All occupations in logging, all occupations in forest fire fighting and forest fire prevention, and all occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill are prohibited for minors under eighteen years of age, except the following:
(1) Exceptions applying to logging:
(a) Work in offices
or in repair or maintenance shops.
(b) Work in the construction, operation,
repair, or maintenance of living and
administrative quarters of logging camps.
(c) Work in timber cruising, surveying, or
logging-engineering parties; work in the repair or maintenance of roads,
railroads, or flumes; work in forest protection, such as clearing fire trails
or roads, piling and burning slash, maintaining fire-fighting equipment,
constructing and maintaining telephone lines, provided
that such work is not performed in conjunction with, or in support of, efforts
to extinguish a fores fire;
and further provided, that the provisions of this
paragraph shall not apply to the felling or bucking of timber, the collecting
or transporting of logs, the operation of power-driven machinery, the handling
or use of explosives, and work on
trestles.
(d) Peeling of fence
posts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, or similar products
when not done in conjunction with and at the same time and place as other
logging occupations declared hazardous by this rule.
(e) Work in the feeding or care of
animals.
(2) Exceptions
applying to the operation of any permanent sawmill or the operation of any lath
mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill; provided that these exceptions do not apply to a portable
sawmill the lumber yard of which is used only for the temporary storage of
green lumber and in connection with which no office or repair or maintenance
shop is ordinarily maintained and further provided that these exceptions do not apply to work
that
entails entering the sawmill building:
(a)
Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops;
(b) Straightening, marketing, or tallying
lumber on the dry chain or the dry drop sorter;
(c) Pulling lumber from the dry
chain;
(d) Cleanup in the
lumberyard;
(e) Piling, handling,
or shipping of cooperage stock in yards or storage sheds, other than operating
or assisting in the operation of power-driven equipment;
(f) Clerical work in yards or shipping sheds,
such as done by ordermen, tallymen, and shipping clerks;
(g) Cleanup work outside shake and shingle
mills, except when the mill is in operation;
(h) Splitting shakes manually from pre-cut
and split blocks with a froe and mallet, except inside the mill building or
cover;
(i) Packing shakes into
bundles when done in conjunction with splitting shakes manually with a froe and
mallet, except inside the mill building or cover;
(j) Manual loading of bundles of shingles or
shakes into trucks or railroad cars, provided that the employer has on file a
statement from a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy certifying the minor
capable of performing this work without injury to himself.
(B) Definitions:
(1) The term "all occupations in logging"
shall mean all work performed in connection with the felling of timber; the bucking or
converting of timber into logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical
wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar products; the
collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting, and unloading of such
products in connection with logging, the constructing, repairing, and
maintaining of roads, railroads, flumes, or camps used in connection with
logging; the
moving, installing, rigging, and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in
logging; and
other work performed in connection with logging. The term shall not apply to
work performed in timber culture, timber
stand improvement, or in emergency firefighting.
(2) The term "all occupations in the
operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill"
shall mean all work performed in or about any such mill in connection with
the storing of logs and bolts; converting logs or
bolts into sawn lumber, laths, shingles, or cooperage stock, or other products
of such mills; and other work performed in
connection with the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or
cooperage-stock mill. The term shall not include work performed in the
planing-mill department or other remanufacturing departments of any sawmill, or
in any planing-mill or remanufacturing plant not a part of a sawmill.
(3)
The term "all
occupations in forest fire fighting and forest fire prevention" shall include
the controlling and extinguishing of fires, the wetting down of areas or
extinguishing of spot fires, and the patrolling of burned areas to assure the
fire has been extinguished. The term shall also include the following tasks
when performed in conjunction with, or in support of, efforts to extinguish a
forest fire: the piling and burning of slash; the clearing of fire trails or
roads; the construction, maintenance, and patrolling of fire lines; acting as a
fire lookout or fire patrolman; and the maintaining of fire fighting equipment.
The prohibition concerning the employment of youth in forest fire fighting and
fire prevention applies to all forest and timber tract locations, logging
operations, and sawmill operations, including all buildings located within such
areas.
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