41-2-107. Prohibited employment of minors who are sixteen and seventeen years old. Unless working as an apprentice or student-learner under the provisions of 41-2-110, a minor 16 or 17 years of age may not be employed in or in connection with any of the following occupations:
     (1) manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components;
     (2) logging and the operation of a sawmill, lath mill, or shingle mill;
     (3) the operation of power-driven woodworking machines;
     (4) an occupation involving exposure to a radioactive substance or ionizing radiation;
     (5) the operation of a freight elevator, except for a freight elevator permitted for use under the child labor provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, or other power-driven hoisting apparatus;
     (6) the operation of a power-driven metal forming, punching, and shearing machine;
     (7) a mining occupation;
     (8) slaughtering, meatpacking, meat processing, or rendering;
     (9) the operation of a power-driven bakery machine;
     (10) the operation of a power-driven paper products machine;
     (11) the manufacture of brick, tile, or similar products;
     (12) the operation of a circular saw, bandsaw, or guillotine shears;
     (13) a wrecking or demolition operation;
     (14) an excavation operation;
     (15) a roofing operation;
     (16) riding outside a motor vehicle to assist in transporting or delivering goods; and
     (17) a coal mining operation.

     History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 391, L. 1993.