Ohio Admin. Code 4101:9-2-03 - Hazardous occupations in agriculture
The following occupations in agriculture are
. No minor under sixteen may be employed at any time in
these occupations except as exempt below.
(A) Operating a tractor of over twenty PTO
horsepower, or connecting or disconnecting
an implement, or any of its parts,
to or from such a tractor.
(B)
Operating or assisting to operate (including starting, stopping, adjusting,
feeding, or any other activity involving physical
contact associated with the operation of ) any of
the following machines:
(1) Corn picker,
cotton picker, grain combine, hay mower, forage harvester, hay baler, potato
digger, or mobile pea viner;
(2)
Feed grinder, crop dryer, forage blower, auger conveyor, or the unloading
mechanism of a nongravity-type self-unloading wagon or trailer; or
(3) Power post-hole digger, power post
driver, or nonwalking-type rotary tiller.
(C) Operating or assisting to operate
(including starting, stopping, adjusting, feeding, or any other activity
involving physical contact associated with the operation
of ) any of the following machines:
(1) Trencher or earthmoving
equipment;
(2) Fork lift;
(3) Potato combine; or
(4) Power-driven circular, band, or chain
saw.
(D) Working on a
farm in a yard, pen, or stall occupied by a:
(1) Bull, boar, or stud horse maintained for
breeding purposes; or
(2) Sow with
suckling pigs, or cow with newborn calf (with umbilical cord
present).
(E) Felling,
bucking, skidding, loading, or unloading timber with butt diameter of more than
six inches.
(F) Working from a
ladder or scaffold (painting, repairing, or building structures,
; pruning
trees,
;
picking fruit,
; etc.) at a height of over twenty feet.
(G) Driving a bus, truck, or automobile when transporting passengers, or riding on a tractor as a passenger or
helper.
(H) Working inside:
(1) A fruit, forage, or grain storage
designed to retain an oxygen deficient or toxic atmosphere;
(2) An upright silo within two weeks after
silage has been added or when a top unloading device is in operating
position;
(3) A manure pit;
or
(4) A horizontal silo while
operating a tractor for packing purposes.
(I) 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"
"poison" and the "skull and crossbones" on the label;
or category II of toxicity, identified by the word "WARNING"
"warning" on
the label.
(J) Handling or using a
blasting agent, including but not limited to, dynamite, black powder,
sensitized ammonium nitrate, blasting caps, and primer cord; or
(K) Transporting, transferring, or applying
anhydrous ammonia.
(L) Exemptions:
(1) These prohibitions do not apply to the
employment of minors under eighteen years of age in connection with farms
operated by their parents, grandparents, or
guardian where they are members of the guardian's household.
(2) Minors fourteen and fifteen years old who
hold certificates of completion from the 4-H federal extension service training
program and the United States office of education vocational agriculture
training program for tractor operation or machine operation may work in the
occupations for which they have been certified. Occupations for which these
certificates are valid are covered by paragraphs (A) and (B) of this rule.
Farmers employing minors who are certified under these programs must keep a
copy of the certificates of completion on file with the minor employee's
record.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4109.05
Rule Amplifies: 4109.05
Prior Effective Dates: 04/17/1979
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