41-2-106 . Prohibited employment of minors who are 14 and 15 years of age. Unless otherwise exempted, a minor 14 or 15 years of age may not be employed in the prohibited occupations in 41-2-107 or in: (1) a manufacturing occupation; (2) a processing occupation, including but not limited to filleting fish, dressing poultry, cracking nuts, or laundering and drycleaning; (3) an occupation that requires the performance of duties in a workroom or workplace where goods are manufactured, mined, or processed; (4) the operation or tending of a hoisting apparatus or of power-driven machinery; (5) an occupation in connection with: (a) transporting persons or property by rail, highway, air, water, pipeline, or other means; (b) warehousing and storage; (c) communication and public utilities; or (d) construction or repair; (6) an occupation in a retail, food service, or gasoline establishment, including: (a) work performed in or around a boiler or an engine room; (b) work in connection with the maintenance or the repair of an establishment, machine, or equipment; (c) outside window washing that involves working from windowsills and all work requiring the use of ladders, scaffolds, or their substitutes at a height of more than 20 feet; (d) an occupation that involves operating, assembling, adjusting, cleaning, oiling, or repairing power-driven food slicers and grinders, food choppers and cutters, or bakery-type mixers; (e) work in freezers and meat coolers and all work preparing meat for sale, except wrapping, scaling, labeling, weighing, pricing, and stacking when performed in other areas; (f) loading or unloading goods to and from a truck, railroad car, or conveyor; or (g) an occupation in a warehouse, except for office or clerical work; (7) the following agricultural occupations, unless otherwise exempt or working as a student-learner pursuant to 41-2-109 : (a) felling, bucking, skidding, loading, or unloading timber with a butt diameter of more than 9 inches; (b) repairing a building from a ladder or scaffold at a height of more than 20 feet; (c) working inside: (i) a fruit, forage, or grain storage structure designed to retain an oxygen-deficient or toxic atmosphere; or (ii) an upright silo within 2 weeks after silage has been added or when a top unloading device is in operating position; (d) handling or using agricultural chemicals classified as poisonous; (e) handling or using a blasting agent, including but not limited to dynamite, black powder, sensitized ammonium nitrate, blasting caps, or primer cord; or (f) transporting, transferring, or applying anhydrous ammonia.
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