Section 11.46. Woodworking machinery

(a) Employment of minors under 18 years of age on power-driven woodworking machinery is prohibited except for apprentices, student learners and graduates of an approved vocational, technical or industrial education curriculum which prepared them for employment in the specific occupation.

Employment on power-driven woodworking machinery includes the following:

(1) The occupation of operating power-driven woodworking machines, including supervising or controlling the operation of such machines, feeding material into such machines and helping the operator to feed material into such machines but not including the placing of material on a moving chain or in a hopper or slide for automatic feeding.

(2) The occupations of setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling or cleaning power-driven woodworking machines.

(3) The operations of off-bearing from circular saws and from guillotine-action veneer clippers.

(b) The term ‘‘power-driven woodworking machines’’ shall mean all fixed or portable machines or tools driven by power and used or designed for cutting, shaping, forming, surfacing, nailing, stapling, wire stitching, fastening or otherwise assembling, pressing or printing wood or veneer.

(c) The term ‘‘off-bearing’’ shall mean the removal of material or refuse directly from a saw table or from the point of operation. Operations not considered as off-bearing within the intent of this section include the following:

(1) The removal of material or refuse from a circular saw or guillotine-action veneer clipper where the material or refuse has been conveyed away from the saw table or point of operation by a gravity chute or by some mechanical means such as a moving belt or expulsion roller.

(2) The following operations when they do not involve the removal of material or refuse directly from a saw table or from a point of operation:

(i) The carrying, moving or transporting of materials from one machine to another or from one part of a plant to another.

(ii) The piling, stacking or arranging of materials for feeding into a machine by another person.

(iii) The sorting, tying, bundling or loading of materials.

The provisions of this § 11.46 amended June 10, 1977, 7 Pa.B. 1591. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (8272).