U.S. Department of Labor
FLSA - Child Labor Rules
The Secretary of Labor has found that the following agricultural occupations are hazardous for youths under 16 years of age. No youth under 16 years of age may be employed at any time in any of these hazardous occupations in agriculture (Ag H.O.) unless specifically exempt.
| Ag H.O. #1 | Operating a tractor of over 20 PTO
(Power-Take-Off) horsepower, or connecting or disconnecting implements or parts to such a
tractor.
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| Ag H.O. #2 |
Operating or helping to operate any of the
following machines (operating includes starting, stopping, adjusting, or feeding the
machine or any other activity involving physical contact with the machine): (a) Corn picker, cotton picker, grain combine, hay mower, forage harvester, hay baler, potato digger, or mobile pea viner; (b) Feed grinder, crop dryer, forage blower, auger conveyor, or the unloading mechanism of a non-gravity-type self-unloading wagon or trailer; or, (c) Power post-hole digger, power post driver, or nonwalking-type rotary tiller.
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| Ag H.O. #3 |
Operating, or assisting to operate any of the
following machines (operating includes starting, stopping, adjusting, or feeding the
machine, or any other activity involving physical contact with the machine): (a) Trencher or earthmoving equipment; (b) Fork lift; (c) Potato combine; or, (d) Power-driven circular, band, or chain saw.
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| Ag H.O. #4 |
Working on a farm in a yard, pen, or stall
occupied by a: (a) Bull, boar, or stud horse maintained for breeding purposes; or (b) Sow with suckling pigs, or cow with newborn calf with umbilical cord present.
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| Ag H.O. #5 | Loading, unloading, felling, bucking, or
skidding timber with a butt (large end) diameter of more than 6 inches.
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| Ag H.O. #6 | Working from a ladder or scaffold at a height
of over 20 feet (working includes painting, repairing, or building structures, pruning
trees, picking fruit, etc.).
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| Ag H.O. #7 | Driving a bus, truck, or automobile when
transporting passengers, or riding on a tractor as a passenger or helper.
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| Ag H.O. #8
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Working inside: (a) A fruit, forage (feed),
or grain storage structure designed to retain an oxygen deficient or toxic atmosphere -
for example, a silo where fruit is left to ferment;
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| Ag H.O. #9 | Handling or applying agricultural chemicals if
the chemicals are classified under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
as Toxicity Category I -- identified by the word "Danger" and/or
"Poison" with skull and crossbones; or Toxicity Category II -- identified by the
word "Warning" on the label. (Handling includes cleaning or decontaminating
equipment, disposing of or returning empty containers, or serving as a flagman for
aircraft applying agricultural chemicals.)
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| Ag H.O. #10 | Handling or using a blasting agent including,
but not limited to dynamite, black powder, sensitized ammonium nitrate, blasting caps and
primer cord.
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| Ag H.O. #11 | Transporting, transferring, moving, or applying
anhydrous ammonia (dry fertilizer).
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