age 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. [16 F.R. 7008, July 20, 1951, as amended at 28 F.R. 3449, Apr. 9, 1963] § 1500.55 Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven woodworking machines (Order 5). (a) Finding and declaration of fact. The following occupations involved in the operation of power-driven woodworking machines are particularly hazardous for minors between 16 and 18 years of age: operating (1) The occupation of power-driven woodworking machines, including supervising or controlling the operation of such machines, feeding material into such machines, and helping the operator to feed material into such machines but not including the placing of material on a moving chain or in a hopper or slide for automatic feeding. (2) The occupations of setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning power-driven woodworking machines. (3) The occupations of off-bearing from circular saws and from guillotineaction veneer clippers. (b) Definitions. As used in this section: (1) The term "power-driven woodworking machines" shall mean all fixed or 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) The term "off-bearing" shall mean the removal of material or refuse directly from a saw table or from the point of operation. Operations not considered as off-bearing within the intent of this section include (1) the removal of material or refuse from a circular saw or guillotine-action veneer clipper where the material or refuse has been conveyed away from the saw table or point of operation by a gravity chute or by some mechanical means such as a moving belt or expulsion roller, and (ii) the follow ing operations when they do not involve the removal of material or refuse directly from a saw table or from the point of operation: the carrying, moving, or transporting of materials from one machine to another or from one part of a plant to another; the piling, stacking, or arranging of materials for feeding into a machine by another person; and the sorting, tying, bundling, or loading of materials. (c) Exemptions. This section shall not apply to the employment of apprentices or student-learners under the conditions prescribed in § 1500.50 (b) and (c). [16 F.R. 7008, July 20, 1951, as amended at 28 F.R. 3449, Apr. 9, 1963] § 1500.56 Occupations chart applying to Hazardous-Occupations Orders Nos. 4 and 5 (§§ 1500.54 and 1500.55). (a) The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 establishes a basic minimum age of 16 years for employment and provides that this minimum age shall be raised to 18 in occupations found and declared particularly hazardous in accordance with the terms of the act. (b) Hazardous-Occupations Order No. 4 (§ 1500.54) declares that all occupations in logging and in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill, with certain specific exceptions, are particularly hazardous. This order applies to all work in connection with logging, including work in connection with the logging of saw timber, pulpwood, excelsior wood, chemical wood, fence posts, cordwood, or similar products, with a few occupations specifically excepted. It also applies to all work in the sawmill building and to all work about the sawmill except for a few specific occupations outside the sawmill building. (c) Hazardous-Occupations Order No. 5 (§ 1500.55) declares that occupations involving the operation of power-driven woodworking machines and off-bearing from certain machines are particularly hazardous. This applies to the operation of power-driven woodworking machines in the planing-mill department or other remanufacturing department of a sawmill, also to the operation of power-driven woodworking machines wherever found. Occupation not permitted for 16- and 17-year-old persons (a) Any work that involves the construction of railroads, roads, (a) Faller (cuts down the tree). (b) Bucker (cuts tree into log length). (c) Scaler (measures the amount of lumber in the log) (d) Swamper (laborer, cuts brush, etc.). (e) Limber (cuts limbs from fallen trees).. (f) Saw filer (keeps saws and axes filed and ground) (a) Rigging slinger (installs equipment for yarding, helps yard (b) Chokesetter (places choker (wire sling) about log to be (c) Chaser (removes the sling after log has been moved). (d) Whistle punk (transmits signals to yarder engineer for (e) Hook tender (foreman of yarding crew). (f) Sniper (rounds off ends of log to be moved). (g) Yarder engineer or skidder leverman (operates the yarder (h) Swamper (laborer, cuts away brush, etc.). (i) Fireman (fires the boiler on yarder engine). (a) Tractor operator or cat skinner-(operates tractors used to (b) Chokesetter (places choker about log to be moved). (c) Tongs hooker (places tongs on log when tongs are used (d) Swamper (laborer who clears away brush and helps make (a) Loader (loads logs for transportation). (b) Swamper (laborer who clears away brush and helps make landing for logs). (c) Log snaker (drives animals used in skidding logs). (a) Tongs hooker or loader (places tongs or hooks on log to be (b) Loader engineer or jammer operator (operates loading en (c) Top loader (foreman of loading crew). (d) Fireman (fires the boiler on loader). See footnote 1 at end of table. (a) Pondman (poles logs into the log slip for moving to log deck). (c) Yardman (rolls logs to log deck), (a) Scaler (measures logs on log deck and rolls log into position for the head saw). (b) Log deckman or log turner (the scaler's assistant). (c) Head sawyer (operates the head saw). (d) Dogger (operates the log holding mechanism on the head (e) Block setter (operates mechanism controlling thickness of (1) Tail sawyer (removes boards and refuse at rear of head saw). (h) Edger line-up man or edger spotter (lines up boards for (1) Edger off-bearer (separates good boards from scrap at rear of edger). (1) Slasher man (operates slasher saw cutting up waste lumber). (k) Trimmer man (operates trimmer saw that cuts lumber to length). (1) Trimmer spotter (lines up boards for trimmer saw). (m) Gang sawyer (operates gang saw that saws large lumber into smaller boards). (n) Gang loader (lines up lumber for the gang sawyer). (o) Gang-saw tailer (removes lumber at rear of gang saw). (p) Resaw operator (operates a saw for resawing boards). (q) Resaw line-up (lines up lumber for resaw operator). (r) Resaw tailer (removes lumber at rear of resaw). (s) Hog feeder (operates hog mill to grind up scrap lumber). (t) Clean-up man (sweeps sawdust and refuse into refuse conveyors). (u) Saw-filer (sharpens saws in the filing room) (a) Grader, tally man, and puller on the green chain and all other work on the green chain. (b) Lumber stacker, unstacker, loader, and unloader (stacks (c) Crane operator (operates a crane for handling lumber). (c) Bolterman (lath mill, operates a small gang saw). (f) Shingle packer (shingle mill, packs shingles into bundles). (1) Knee bolter, head turner, equalizer operator, cut-off sawyer, (a) Millwright and maintenance work in the sawmill. See footnote 1 at end of table. Type of work 1. in the planing mili, Dox tactory or other remanufacturing department. II. In the manufacturing of veneer....... (a) Off-bearing or tailing irom (2) Circular saws when the material is conveyed away (3) Planers, molders, or other surfacing machines. (5) Naling or wire-stitching machines. (6) Presses, such as glue presses and box-board squeezers. (1) Band resaw with a chain feed. (2) Automatic nailing machine with hopper, belt, or chain feed. (3) Automatic wire-stitching machines with hopper or chain feed. (4) Box-board squeezers (Linderman machines with chain (c) Operation of any woodworking machine by apprentice (d) Carrying or moving materials from one machine to another (e) Arranging materials for another person to feed into machine (table-up) (f) Work in preparation for shipment (tying-up, bundling, wrapping, etc.). (g) Handling or shipping of lumber products. (h) Operating machines or tools that are not woodworking machines such as. (1) Screw driver. (2) Wood-polishing machines. (3) Machines for tightening bolts. (a) Work about the soaking pit. (5) Off-bearing from: (1) Veneer lathe. (2) Guillotine clipper when material is conveyed away chute. Occupation not permitted for 16- and 17-year old persons (a) Operating or assisting the operator to feed (1) Band saws. (2) Circular saws (table saws, swing saws, portable saws, etc.). (3) Surfacing machines (planers, shapers, jointers, molders, matchers, stickers, panel raisers, tenoners, etc.) (5) Drills, boring machines, mortisers. (6) Sanding machines (belt sanders, disc sanders, drum sanders, cone sanders, etc.). (7) Nailing and stapling machines, wire stitchers, berry box machines. (8) Veneer presses, other pressing machines. (1) Circular saws, when the material is not conveyed away (c) Setting-up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning ma- (a) Operating or assisting the operator to feed: (4) Any other woodworking machine as given under planing mill, etc. (b) Off-bearing from a guillotine-action veneer clipper when material is not conveyed away from the point of operation by moving belt or gravity chute (c) Setting-up. adjusting repairing, oiling, or cleaning ma chines None of these sawmill occupations are permitted in portable sawmills, that is in sawmills that are readily dismantled and moved from one tract of timber to another Order No. 4 refers to a portable sawmill as one in which the lumberyard is used only for the temporary storage of green lumber and in connection with which no office or repair or main tenance shop is ordinarily maintained. Further, none of these occupations are permitted in permanent sawmills when the work entails entering the sawmill building. |