Wisconsin Legislature: DWD 270.12(18)(a)

d. The elevator is equipped with upper and lower travel limit devices that will normally bring the car to rest at either terminal and a final limit switch that will prevent the movement in either direction and will open in case of excessive overtravel by the car.

3. For the purpose of subd. 2.:

a. “Automatic elevator” means a passenger elevator, a freight elevator, or a combination passenger–freight elevator, the operation of which is controlled by pushbuttons in such a manner that the starting, going to the landing selected, leveling and holding, and the opening and closing of the car and hoistway doors are entirely automatic.

b. “Automatic signal operation elevator” means an elevator that is started in response to the operation of a switch, such as a lever or pushbutton, in the car which when operated by the operator actuates a starting device that automatically closes the car and hoistway doors so that from that point on, the movement of the car to the landing selected, the leveling and holding when it gets there, and the opening of the car and hoistway doors are entirely automatic.

(13) Infectious agent. No minor may be employed in any occupations or duties involving exposure to infectious agents as defined in s. 101.58 (2) (f), Stats., and specified in ch. SPS 335.

(14) Lifeguards, swimming instructors and aides. Minors 16 and 17 years of age may not be employed as lifeguards and swimming instructors and aides unless they have successfully completed a bona fide life saving course. Minors 14 and 15 years of age may not be employed as lifeguards and swimming instructors and aides.

(15) Liquor. No minor may be employed in establishments where liquor is present, except minors 14 to 17 years old may be employed in occupations that do not involve serving, selling, dispensing, or giving away the liquor or acting as bouncers, crowd controllers, or identification checkers.

(16) Lead. No minor may be employed in any occupation involving exposure to lead, including radiator manufacture and repair, battery manufacture and recycling, removal of lead-based paint, soldering, and welding.

(17) Logging, sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill.

(a) Logging prohibitions and exceptions. No minor may be employed in any occupation in logging, including the felling or bucking of timber, the collecting or transporting of logs, the operation of chain saws and other power–driven machinery, the handling or use of explosives, and work on trestles. This prohibition does not apply to any of the following:

1. Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops related to logging.

2. Work in the construction, operation, repair, or maintenance of living and administrative quarters of logging camps.

3. 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, or acting as fire lookout or fire patrolman away from the actual logging operations.

4. 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 subsection.

5. Work in the feeding or care of animals related to logging.

(b) Sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, and cooperage–stock mill prohibitions and exceptions.

1. No minor may be employed in any occupation in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage–stock mill.

2. Except as provided in subd. 3., subd. 1. does not apply to any of the following work related to any permanent sawmill or the operation of any lath mill, shingle mill, or cooper-age–stock mill:

a. Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops.

b. Straightening, marking, or tallying lumber on the dry chain or the dry drop sorter.

c. Pulling lumber from the dry chain.

d. Clean–up 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 orderpersons, tallypersons, and shipping clerks.

3. Subdivision 2. does not apply to work that involves entering the sawmill building or to a combined portable sawmill and lumberyard, the lumberyard of which is used only for the temporary storage of green lumber.

1. “All occupations in logging” means 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 these 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 does not include work performed in timber culture, timber stand improvement, or in emergency fire–fighting.

2. “All occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage–stock mill” means all work performed in or about any such mill in connection with storing of logs and bolts; converting logs or bolts into sawn lumber, laths, shingles, or cooperage stock; storing, drying, and shipping lumber, laths, shingles, 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 saw-mill.

(18) Meat processing.

(a) Prohibitions. No minor may be employed in any of the following occupations in or about slaughtering and meat packing establishments; rendering plants; or wholesale, retail, or service establishments:

1. All occupations on the killing floor, in curing cellars, and in hide cellars, except the work of messengers, runners, hand-truckers, and similar occupations that require entering such workrooms or workplaces infrequently and for short periods of time.

2. All occupations involved in the recovery of lard and oils, except packaging and shipping of such products and the operation of lard–roll machines.

3. All occupations involved in tankage or rendering of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products.

4. All occupations involved in setting–up, adjusting, operating, repairing, oiling, feeding, or cleaning any of the following power–driven meat–processing machines, regardless of the product being processed:

a. Meat patty forming machines.

b. Meat and bone cutting saws.

c. Power knives, except bacon–slicing machines.

d. Head–splitters and guillotine cutters.

e. Snout–pullers and jaw–pullers.

f. Skinning machines.

g. Horizontal rotary washing machines.

h. Casing–cleaning machines such as crushing, stripping, and finishing machines.

i. Grinding, mixing, chopping, and hashing machines.

j. Presses, except belly–rolling machines.

5. All boning occupations.

6. All occupations that involve the pushing or dropping of any suspended carcass, half carcass, or quarter carcass.

7. All occupations involving hand–lifting or hand–carrying any carcass or half carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any quarter carcass of beef or horse.

(b) Definitions. For the purpose of this subsection:

1. “Boning occupations” means the removal of bones from meat cuts. “Boning” does not include work that involves cutting, scrapping, or trimming meat from cuts containing bones.

2. “Curing cellar” includes a workroom or workplace that is primarily devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing materials. “Curing cellar” does not include a workroom or workplace where meats are smoked.

3. “Hide cellar” includes a workroom or workplace where hides are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise cured.

4. “Killing floor” includes a workroom or workplace where cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are immobilized, shackled, or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to chilling.

5. “Rendering plants” means establishments engaged in the conversion of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products.

6. “Slaughtering and meat packing establishments” means places in or about which cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are killed, butchered, or processed. “Slaughtering and meat packing establishments” also includes establishments that manufacture or process meat products or sausage casings from such animals.

(19) Metal-forming, punching, and shearing power–driven machines.

(a) Prohibitions. No minor may be employed in any of the following occupations:

1. The occupations of operator of or helper on the following power–driven metal-forming, punching, and shearing machines:

a. All rolling machines, such as beading, straightening, corrugating, flanging, or bending rolls; and hot or cold rolling mills.

b. All pressing or punching machines, such as punch presses, except those provided with full automatic feed and ejection and with a fixed barrier guard to prevent the hands or fingers of the operator from entering the area between the dies; power presses; and plate punches.

c. All bending machines, such as apron brakes and press brakes.

d. All hammering machines, such as drop hammers and power hammers.

e. All shearing machines, such as guillotine or squaring shears; alligator shears; and rotary shears.

2. The occupations of setting–up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning these machines including those with automatic feed and ejection.

(b) Definitions. For the purpose of this subsection:

1. “Forming, punching, and shearing machines” means power–driven metal–working machines, other than machine tools, which change the shape of or cut metal by means of tools, such as dies, rolls, or knives which are mounted on rams, plungers, or other moving parts. Types of forming, punching, and shearing machines enumerated in this subsection are the machines to which the designation is by custom applied.

2. “Helper” means a person who assists in the operation of a machine covered by this subsection by helping to place materials into the machine or helping to remove them from the machine.

3. “Operator” means a person who operates a machine covered by this subsection by performing such functions as starting or stopping the machine, placing materials into or removing them from the machine, or any other functions directly involved in operation of the machine.

(20) Mining, other than coal.

(a) Prohibition and exceptions. No minor may be employed in any occupation in connection with mining, other than coal, except the following:

1. Work in offices, the warehouse or supply house, the change house, the laboratory, or in repair or maintenance shops not located underground.

2. Work in the operation and maintenance of living quarters.

3. Work outside the mine in surveying, the repair and maintenance of roads, or general clean–up about the mine property, such as clearing brush and digging drainage ditches.

4. Work of track crews in the building and maintaining of sections of railroad track located in those areas of open–cut metal mines where mining and hauling activities are not being conducted at the time and place that the building and maintenance work is being done.

5. Work in or about surface placer mining operations other than placer dredging operations and hydraulic placer mining operations.

6. The following work in metal mills other than in mercury–recovery mills or mills using the cyanide process:

a. Work involving the operation of jigs, sludge tables, flotation cells, or drier–filters.

b. Work of hand sorting at picking table or picking belt.

c. General clean–up work.

(b) Definitions. For the purpose of this subsection:

1. “All occupations in connection with mining, other than coal” means all work performed underground in mines and quarries; on the surface at underground mines and underground quarries; in or about open–cut mines, open quarries, clay pits, and sand and gravel operations; at or about placer mining operations; at or about dredging operations for clay, sand or gravel; at or about bore–hole mining operations; in or about all metal mills, washer plants, or grinding mills reducing the bulk of the extracted minerals; and at or about any other crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing or cleaning operations performed upon the extracted minerals except where these operations are performed as a part of a manufacturing process.

2. “All occupations in connection with mining, other than coal” does not include work performed in subsequent manufacturing or processing operations, such as work performed in smelters, electro–metallurgical plants, refineries, reduction plants, cement mills, plants where quarried stone is cut, sanded and further processed, or plants manufacturing clay, glass or ceramic products. The term does not include work performed in connection with coal mining, in petroleum production, in natural gas production, nor in dredging operations which are not a part of mining operations, such as dredging for construction or navigation purposes.

Note: For restrictions on minors working in any occupation in or about a coal mine, see sub. (8).

(21) Motor vehicle driver and outside helper.

(a) Prohibition. Except as provided in par. (b), no minor may be employed as a motor vehicle driver or outside helper on any public road; highway; in or about a mine, including an open pit mine or quarry; in a place where logging or sawmill operations are in progress; or in any excavation of the type identified in sub. (9).

(b) Exception-incidental and occasional driving by 17-year-olds. Minors who are at least 17 years of age may drive motor vehicles on public roadways when all of the following conditions are met:

1. The driving is only occasional and incidental to the minor’s employment.

2. The driving is restricted to daylight hours.

3. The driving takes place within a 30-mile radius of the minor’s place of employment.

4. The motor vehicle does not exceed 6,000 pounds gross vehicle weight.