Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 839 - BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES
Division 21 - RULES REGULATING THE EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS IN OREGON
Section 839-021-0102 - Occupations and Types of Work Declared Hazardous for Minors Under 16 Years of Age

Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 839-021-0102

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 12, December 1, 2024

(1) Pursuant to OAR 839-021-0097(1)(a), the Bureau hereby declares the following occupations and types of work to be hazardous and any employment by minors under 16 years of age is hereby prohibited:

(a) Baking;

(b) Blast furnaces;

(c) Breweries;

(d) Bridge operations;

(e) Briquet plants;

(f) Building cleaning (exterior);

(g) Cattle handling;

(h) Coal plants or bunkers;

(i) Cold storage plants;

(j) Commercial docks;

(k) Construction (alteration, repair, painting, or demolition of buildings, bridges, and structures);

(l) Cooking (except: cooking with a gas or electric grill that does not have an open flame; using a microwave to warm food; or using a deep fryer that is equipped with a device that automatically raises and lowers the basket);

(m) Creosoting works;

(n) Distilleries;

(o) Electric power plants, lines;

(p) Electric light plants, lines;

(q) Engineering works (construction, improvement, alteration, or repair of steam plants, water power plants, telephone, telegraph, or electric plants or lines or railroads, streets, highways, sewers, harbors, docks, or canals);

(r) Firefighting;

(s) Foundries;

(t) Garbage works;

(u) Gas works;

(v) Grain elevators;

(w) Gravel or sand plant or bunker;

(x) Ice plants;

(y) Kitchen cleaning of equipment when the surface is hotter than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or filtering or disposing of cooking oil or grease that is hotter than 100 degrees Fahrenheit;

(z) Railroads;

(aa) Land clearing (with blasting or presence of heavy equipment);

(bb) Logging operations;

(cc) Longshoring;

(dd) Lumber loading;

(ee) Mechanical amusements;

(ff) Milk condenseries;

(gg) Mines;

(hh) Moving buildings, bridges, and structures;

(ii) Peace officer work;

(jj) Powder works;

(kk) Quarries;

(ll) Reduction works;

(mm) Rock crusher;

(nn) Smelters;

(oo) Stockyards;

(pp) Surveying;

(qq) Tanneries;

(rr) Tree surgery;

(ss) Well digging and drilling;

(tt) Window cleaning (outside above ground);

(uu) Wineries;

(vv) Wood cutting, sawing.

(2) The following occupations and types of work are declared to be hazardous for any minor under 16 years of age when the work is performed in rooms or areas having power-driven machinery:

(a) Boat repair shops;

(b) Canneries;

(c) Chop mills;

(d) Creameries;

(e) Cycle repair shops;

(f) Electrotyping plants;

(g) Engraving plants;

(h) Factories (manufacturing, repair, alteration);

(i) Feed mills;

(j) Flour mills;

(k) Garages;

(l) Grain warehouses;

(m) Irrigation works;

(n) Laundries;

(o) Lithographing plants;

(p) Mills;

(q) Motor repair shops;

(r) Photoengraving plants;

(s) Printing plants;

(t) Shipbuilding operations;

(u) Stereotyping plants;

(v) All kinds of work in workshops or any premise, room, or place where power-driven machinery is used in or incidental to adapting articles or goods for sale.

(3) The following occupations or types of work are declared to be hazardous for any minor under 16 years of age and these minors are permitted to perform office work only in the following operations:

(a) Auto wrecking yards;

(b) Junk dealers;

(c) Motor vehicle (transportation);

(d) Lumbering;

(e) Water works.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 651.060(4), 653.261

Stats. Implemented: S.B. 135, 77th Leg., Reg. Ses. (Or.2013), ORS 653

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