Kan. Admin. Regs. § 49-1-61 - Occupations involving slaughtering, meat packing or processing, or rendering
(1)
Occupations.
(a) All occupations on the
killing floor, in curing cellars, and in hide cellars, except the work of
messengers, runners, hand-truckers, and similar occupations which require
entering such workrooms or workplaces infrequently and for short periods of
time.
(b) All occupations involved
in the recovery of lard and oils, except packaging and shipping of such
products and the operations of lard-roll machines.
(c) 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.
(d) All
occupations involved in the operation or feeding of the following power-driven
meat-processing machines, including the occupation of setting up, adjusting,
repairing, oiling, or cleaning such machines: Meat-patty-forming machines,
meat-and bone-cutting saws, knives (except bacon-slicing machines,) head
splitters, and guillotine cutters; snout pullers and jaw pullers; skinning
machines; horizontal rotary washing machines; casing-cleaning machines such as
crushing, stripping, and finishing machines; grinding, mixing, chopping, and
hashing machines; and presses (except belly-rolling machines).
(e) All boning occupations.
(f) All occupations that involve the pushing
or dropping of any suspended carcass, half carcass, or quarter carcass.
(g) 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.
(2) Definitions.
(a) The term "slaughtering and meat-packing
establishments" shall mean places in or about which cattle, calves, hogs,
sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are killed, butchered, or processed. The term
shall also include establishments which manufacture or process meat products or
sausage casings from such animals.
(b) The term "rendering plants" shall mean
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.
(c) The term "killing floor" shall include
that 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.
(d) The term
"curing cellar" shall include that workroom or workplace which is primarily
devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing materials. It does
not include that workroom or workplace where meats are smoked.
(e) The term "hide cellar" shall include that
workroom or workplace where hides are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise
cured.
(f) The term "boning
occupations" shall mean the removal of bones from meat cuts. It shall not
include work that involves cutting, scraping, or trimming meat from cuts
containing bones.
(3)
Exemptions. This order shall not apply to the killing and processing of
poultry, rabbits, or small game in areas physically separated from the killing
floor.
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