Section 11.65. Meat packing industry

Employment in any of the following occupations of minors under 18 years of age in or about slaughtering or meat packing establishments and rendering plants, except those engaged solely in the killing or processing of poultry, rabbits or small game and except for apprentices and student learners and graduates of an approved vocational, technical, or industrial education curriculum which prepared them for employment in the specific occupation, is prohibited:

(1) 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.

(2) All occupations involved in the recovering of lard and oils, except for operation of a lard-roll machine and occupations in the packaging and shipment of such products.

(3) All occupations involved in tankage or inedible rendering of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and the like.

(4) All occupations involved in the operation of feeding of the following power-driven meat processing machines, inluding the occupations of setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling or cleaning such machines; meat and bone cutting saws, knives, headsplitters 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.

(5) All boning occupations, except cutting, scraping or trimming meat from cuts containing bones.

(6) All occupations that involve the pushing or dropping of any suspended carcass, half carcass or quarter carcass.

(7) All occupations that involve the handlifting or handcarrying of any beef, pork or horse carcass, half carcass of the same, or any beef or horse quarter carcass.

The provisions of this § 11.65 amended June 10, 1977, 7 Pa.B. 1591. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (8276) and (13410).