South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 71 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING AND REGULATION-DIVISION OF LABOR
Article 3 - CHILD LABOR
Section 71-3108 - Hazardous Agricultural Occupations; Exemptions
Universal Citation: SC Code Regs 71-3108
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 12, December 22, 2023
(a) The following occupations in agriculture are particularly hazardous for the employment of minors below the age of sixteen:
(1) Operating a tractor of over 20
PTO horsepower, or connecting or disconnecting an implement or any of its parts
to or from such a tractor.
(2)
Operating or assisting to operate (including starting, stopping, adjusting,
feeding, or any other activity involving physical contact associated with the
operation) any of the following machines:
(i)
Corn picker, cotton picker, grain combine, hay mower, forage harvester, hay
baler, potato digger, or mobile pea viner;
(ii) Feed grinder, crop dryer, forage blower,
auger conveyor, or the unloading mechanism of a nongravity-type self-unloading
wagon or trailer; or
(iii) Power
post-hole digger, power post driver, or nonwalking type rotary
tiller.
(3) Operating or
assisting to operate (including starting, stopping, adjusting, feeding, or any
other activity involving physical contact associated with the operation) any of
the following machines:
(i) Trencher or
earthmoving equipment;
(ii) Fork
lift;
(iii) Potato combine;
or
(iv) Power-driven circular,
band, or chain saw.
(4)
Working on a farm in a yard, pen, or stall occupied by a:
(i) Bull, boar, or stud horse maintained for
breeding purposes; or
(ii) Sow with
suckling pigs, or cow with newborn calf (with umbilical cord
present).
(5) Felling,
bucking, skidding, loading, or unloading timber with butt diameter of more than
six inches.
(6) Working from a
ladder or scaffold (painting, repairing, or building structures, pruning trees,
picking fruit, etc.) at a height of over 20 feet.
(7) Driving a bus, truck, or automobile when
transporting passengers, or riding on a tractor as a passenger or
helper.
(8) Working inside:
(i) A fruit, forage, or grain storage
designed to retain an oxygen deficient or toxic atmosphere;
(ii) An upright silo within 2 weeks after
silage has been added or when a top unloading device is in operating
position;
(iii) A manure pit;
or
(iv) A horizontal silo while
operating a tractor for packing purposes.
(9) Handling or applying (including cleaning
or decontaminating equipment, disposal or return of empty containers, or
serving as a flagman for aircraft applying) agricultural chemicals classified
under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ( 7 U.S.C. 135 et
seq.) as Category I of toxicity, identified by the word "poison" and the "skull
and crossbones" on the label; or Category II of toxicity, identified by the
word "warning" on the label;
(10)
Handling or using a blasting agent, including but not limited to, dynamite,
black powder, sensitized ammonium nitrate, blasting caps, and primer cord;
or
(11) Transporting, transferring,
or applying anhydrous ammonia.
(b) Exemptions.
(1) Student-learners shall be exempt from
this section.
(2) This section
shall not apply to the employment of a minor below the age of sixteen by his
parent or by a person standing in the place of his parent on a farm owned or
operated by such parent or person.
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